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?

Author: Michel Büch
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9783111358406

About the Author
Michel Büch, University of Bremen, Germany