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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
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2017
About this book
Addressing a diverse set of improvised art and music forms—from jazz and cinema to dance and literature—this volume traces how the social, political, and the aesthetic relate within the context of improvisation.
Author / Editor information
Georgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Oxford and the editor of Music, Sound, and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience.
Eric Lewis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and the author of The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie.
Will Straw is Professor of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University and the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock.
Eric Lewis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and the author of The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie.
Will Straw is Professor of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University and the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock.
Reviews
"An indispensable collection that cracks open a site for more rich and interdisciplinary work."
-- Dan DiPiero boundary 2
"[Readers] will be more than rewarded by the insight it offers into the social aesthetics of improvisation, issues you will no longer be able to ignore as you listen to your next improv recording or attend your next improv concert."
-- Lawrence Joseph Musicworks
"Through both their rigorous theoretical grounding and curation of such a brilliant array of cross-disciplinary contributions, Born, Lewis and Straw offer a thoroughly inspiring set of tools for the academy to begin theorizing where, how and for whom art’s social mediations are occurring. I cannot recommend it highly enough."
-- Toby Young Visual Studies
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction WHAT IS SOCIAL AESTHETICS?
1 - I • The Social and the Aesthetic
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Chapter 1 AFTER RELATIONAL AESTHETICS Improvised Music, the Social, and (Re)Theorizing the Aesthetic
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Chapter 2 SCRIPTING SOCIAL INTERACTION Improvisation, Performance, and Western “Art” Music
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Chapter 3 FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO MALI Reflections on Social Aesthetics and Improvisation
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Chapter 4 FROM NETWORK BANDS TO UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING Rich Gold and the Social Aesthetics of Interactivity
91 - II • Genre and Definition
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Chapter 5 THE SOCIAL AESTHETICS OF SWING IN THE 1940S Or the Distribution of the Non-Sensible
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Chapter 6 WHAT IS “GREAT BLACK MUSIC”? The Social Aesthetics of the AACM in Paris
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Chapter 7 KENNETH GOLDSMITH AND UNCREATIVE IMPROVISATION
160 - III • Sociality and Identity
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Chapter 8 STRAYHORN’S QUEER ARRANGEMENTS
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Chapter 9 WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? Creating Art, Creating Community, Creating a Better World
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Chapter 10 IMPROVISATION IN NEW WAVE CINEMA Beneath the Myth, the Social
233 - IV • Performance
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Chapter 11 SOCIAL AESTHETICS AND TRANSCULTURAL IMPROVISATION Wayde Compton and the Performance of Black Time
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Chapter 12 DEVICES OF EXISTENCE Contact Improvisation, Mobile Performances, and Dancing through Twitter
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Chapter 13 THE DRAMATURGY OF SPONTANEITY Improvising the Social in Theater
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REFERENCES
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CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES
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INDEX
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Publishing information
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April 12, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9781478092766
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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353
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12 illustrations
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eBook ISBN:
9781478092766
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