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1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Series |
Improvisation, community, and social practice |
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Improvisation, community, and social practice.
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| Contents |
After relational aesthetics : improvised music, the social, and (re)theorizing the aesthetic / Georgina Born -- Scripting social interaction : improvisation, performance, and Western "art" music / Nicholas Cook -- From the American civil rights movement to Mali : reflections on social aesthetics and improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- From network bands to ubiquitous computing : Rich Gold and the social aesthetics of interactivity / George E. Lewis -- The social aesthetics of swing in the 1940s : or the distribution of the non-sensible / David Brackett -- What is "great Black music"? The social aesthetics of the AACM in Paris / Eric Lewis -- Kenneth Goldsmith and uncreative improvisation / Darren Wershler -- Strayhorn's queer arrangements / Lisa Barg -- What's love got to do with it? Creating art, creating community, creating a better world / Tracey Nicholls -- Improvisation in New Wave cinema : beneath the myth, the social / Marion Froger, translated by William Straw -- Social aesthetics and transcultural improvisation : Wayde Compton and the performance of Black time / Winfried Siemerling -- Devices of existence : contact improvisation, mobile performances, and dancing through Twitter / Susan Kozel -- The dramaturgy of spontaneity : improvising the social in theater / Zoë Svendsen |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
music |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-333) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2017) |
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Improvisation (Music) -- Social aspects
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Aesthetics -- Social aspects
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Arts and society.
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The arts.
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Music.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Aesthetics -- Social aspects
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Arts and society
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Music -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Born, Georgina, editor.
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Lewis, Eric, 1961- editor.
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Straw, Will, 1954- editor.
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| LC no. |
2016048372 |
| ISBN |
9780822374015 |
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0822374013 |
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