Whiteface: Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness

Michel Büch

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Whiteface

Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness

Michel Büch

Volume 5 in the series American Frictions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110752748

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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?

Author / Editor information

Michel Büch, University of Bremen, Germany

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
1 Introduction: Spacing Whiteness in Improv Open Access Download PDF	1
2 US Improv Comedy and Race – A Sketchy Report Open Access Download PDF	23
3 Truths for Whiteness Open Access Download PDF	64
4 Who Speaks? Open Access Download PDF	151
5 Abjection in Play Open Access Download PDF	186
6 Funny Matter Open Access Download PDF	206
7 In lieu of a Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	238
Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	248
Index Open Access Download PDF	259

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: African-American Studies Academics, American Studies Academics, Literature researchers
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 262
Keywords: Improv Comedy; Whitefacing; Black Cultural Production

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110752748

Hardcover

Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110752670

Paperback

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111358406