Improvisation and social aesthetics /

Improvisation and social aesthetics /

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Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic. As a catalyst for social experiment and political practice, improvisation aids...

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Other Authors: Born, Georgina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lewis, Eric, 1961- (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Straw, Will, 1954- (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
Series:Improvisation, community, and social practice
Improvisation, community, and social practice
Improvisation, community, and social practice
Subjects:
Aesthetics > Social aspects
Arts and society > ^A994689
Arts and society
Improvisation (Music) > Social aspects
Music > Social aspects > ^A1041787
Music > Social aspects
Aesthetics
Improvisation (Music)
Improvisation
Musikästhetik
Musiksoziologie
Musikästhetik
Social aspects
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
  • 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

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