Whiteface : Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness

• Tác giả: Michel Büch
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3110752670
• ISBN-13: 978-3110752748
• ISBN-13: 978-3110752823
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 792.028 Acting and performance
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (262 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 233461
• Chủ đề: 1. General studies; 2. Literary studies: from c 1900 -; 3. Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Tóm tắt

This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are historically grounded in and marked as Black cultural production. What it is about improv that makes it such a white space? Can an absence be an object of study? If so, what is there to study? Where should one look?