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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
Georgina Born
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Description for Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Born, Georgina; Lewis, Eric; Straw, Will. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
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 in the creation, contestation, and codification of social realities and identities. Among other topics, the contributors discuss the social aesthetics of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the Feminist Improvising Group, and contemporary Malian music, as well as the virtual sociality of interactive computer music, the significance of "uncreative" improvisation, responses to French New ... Read more
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 in the creation, contestation, and codification of social realities and identities. Among other topics, the contributors discuss the social aesthetics of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the Feminist Improvising Group, and contemporary Malian music, as well as the virtual sociality of interactive computer music, the significance of "uncreative" improvisation, responses to French New ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361947
SKU
V9780822361947
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About Georgina Born
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more