Improvisation and Social Aesthetics /

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.

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Other Authors: Straw, Will, 1954- (Editor), Lewis, Eric, 1961- (Editor), Born, Georgina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.