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1 online resource (xviii, 737 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge handbooks in philosophy |
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Routledge handbooks in philosophy.
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Introduction / Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta -- Improvisation as normative practice / George W. Bertram -- Improvisation as resonance / Giovanni Matteucci -- Improvisation as creative performance / Caterina Moruzzi -- Material and improvisation in the formative process / Robert T. Valgenti -- Ontology of improvisation in jazz / Daniel Martin Feige -- Improvisation and orientation / Marcello Ruta -- Improvisation and action theory / Claus Beisbart -- Improvisation, actions, and processes / Pierre Saint-Germier, Clément Canonne -- Rethinking realtimeness in improvisation / Sara Ramshaw -- Appreciating improvisations as art / David Davies -- Transformative aesthetics : when the unforeseen emerges / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Improvisation as spontaneous creation versus "making do" / Andy Hamilton -- Improvisation as aesthetic appearance / Christoph Haffter -- The expressivity of musical improvisation / Philip Alperson -- Jazz improvisation, authenticity, and self-expression / Garry L. Hagberg -- Manyness in music improvisation / Franziska Schroeder -- Forms of improvisation and experimentalism / Daniele Goldoni -- Imrovisational phronesis / Bruce Ellis Benson -- Improvisation's ethical and epistemological challenge / Randy Fertel -- Street art and the politics of improvisation / Andrea Lorenzo Baldini -- Improvisation and political emancipation / Matthieu Saladin -- Competing ontologies of musical improvisation / Uri Smilansky, Marc Lewon -- Improvisation and essential ornamentation in vocal music (1600–1900) / Livio Marcaletti -- Freedom and form in piano improvisation in the early 19th century / Katrin Eggers, Michael Lehner -- Improvisation and authenticity in early 20th century western music / Andrew Wilson -- Improvisation and composition : a Schoenbergian view / Sabine Feisst -- Repeatability versus unrepeatability in free improvisation / Thomas Gartmann -- The risk of improvised music : an ethnographic approach / Tom Arthurs -- Empathy in improvisation / Deniz Peters -- Improvisation in pop-rock music / Stefano Marino -- "Improvisation" in play : a view through South Indian music practices / Lara Pearson -- Improvisation in Arab musical practices / A. J. Racy -- Dance improvisation as experimental injury / Eric Mullis -- The springs of action in Butō improvisation / Carla Bagnoli -- Stage improvisation in the Commedia dell'Arte / Domenico Pietropaolo -- Performance art and improvisation / Dieter Mersch -- Improv, stand-up, and comedy / Clément Canonne -- Improvisation, machines, cinema / Gilles Mouëllic -- Improvisation and poetry / Rob Wallace -- Improvisation in painting / Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta -- Improvisation in sculpture / Alice Lacobone -- Improvisation and artistic photography / Alessandro Bertinetto -- Improvisation and installation art / Elisa Caldarola -- Installed improvisation : the case of Erwin Redl / Edgar Landgraf -- Improvisation in design processes / Annika Frye -- Urban improvisations / Paola Berenstein Jacques -- Improvisation in cooking and tasting / Nicola Perullo -- Creativity and improvisation in games / C. Thi Nguyen |
| Summary |
Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and monographs in the field. Its 48 chapters, written specifically for this volume by an international team of scholars, are accessible for students and researchers alike. Publisher |
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Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Notes |
Alessandro Bertinetto is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin in Italy and coordinator of ART-Aesthetics Research Turin (Philosophical Seminar). He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Aesthetics. His most recent books are Eseguire l'inatteso. Ontologia della musica e improvvisazione (2016) and Estetica dell'improvvisazione (2021). Marcello Ruta studied music (classical piano) in Milan and Trieste andobtained his PhD in philosophy in 2010 at the University of Strasbourg and his Habilitation in 2017 at the University of Bern. Heis the author ofSchopenhauer et Schelling, philosophes du temps et de l'éternité (2014) and co-editor (with Alessandro Arbo) of Ontologie musicale: perspectives et débats (2014) |
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online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed August 9, 2021) |
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Improvisation in art.
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PHILOSOPHY / General
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Improvisation in art
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handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bertinetto, Alessandro, 1971- editor.
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Ruta, Marcello. editor.
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| ISBN |
9781003179443 |
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1003179444 |
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100039784X |
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9781000397802 |
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1000397807 |
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9781000397840 |
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