Whiteface : Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness /

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...

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Main Author: Büch, Michel (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
Series:American Frictions , 5
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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