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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Language Notes: | In English. |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2022]
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Series: | American Frictions ,
5 |
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: Spacing Whiteness in Improv
- 2 US Improv Comedy and Race
- A Sketchy Report
- 3 Truths for Whiteness
- 4 Who Speaks?
- 5 Abjection in Play
- 6 Funny Matter
- 7 In lieu of a Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index