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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557839303321

Autore

Büch Michel

Titolo

Whiteface : improv comedy and anti-Blackness / / Michel Büch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2022]

©2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 261 pages)

Collana

American frictions ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

792.028

Soggetti

Improvisation (Acting)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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?.