Whiteface: Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness
Einheitstitel:
Whiteface : How racialized intuition, abjective play, and solipsist humor manifest in US improv comedy
Object category:
Hochschulschriften
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Ort:
Berlin
Date:
[2022]
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
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
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?
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?
Object text:
Michel Büch
Dissertation Universität Bremen 2021
[Online-Ausgabe]
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English
Dissertation Universität Bremen 2021
[Online-Ausgabe]
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English
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2023-04-12
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2022-12-20
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2023-04-12
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