Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Improvising at the Nexus of Discursive and Material Bodies 1
5. 1. Improvisation within a Scene of Constraint: 21
6. PART I . LISTENING, PLACE, AND SPACE
7. 2. “How Am I to Listen to You?”: 35
8. 3. Community Sound [e]Scapes: 55
9. PARTII. TECHNOLOGY AND EMBODIMENT
10. 4. Improvising Composition 73
11. 5. The Networked Body: 91
12. 6. Openness from Closure: 113
13. 7. Mediating the Improvising Body: 131
14. PART III . SENSIBILITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
15. 8. Banding Encounters 145
16. 9. Learning to Go with the Flow: 169
17. 10. Stretched Boundaries: 181
18. PART IV. GENDER, TRAUMA, AND MEMORY
19. 11. The Erotics of Improvisation in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees 199
20. 12. Corregidora: 217
21. 13. Theorizing the Saxophonic Scream in Free Jazz Improvisation 233
22. 14. Extemporaneous Genomics: 245
23. PART V. REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY
24. 15. Faster and Louder: 263
25. 16. Improvisation and the Audibility of Difference: 283
26. 17. Performing the National Body Politic in Twenty-First- Century Argentina 307
27. Discography 327
28. References 329
29. Contributors 351
30. Index 355