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 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?

About the author

Michel Büch, University of Bremen, Germany

Product details

• Authors: Michel Büch
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2023
• EAN: 9783111358406
• ISBN: 978-3-11-135840-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 16 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 412 g
• Series: ISSN; American Frictions; American Frictions, 5
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Miscellaneous