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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
Daniel Fischlin
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Description for The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
Hardback. The Fierce Urgency of Now offers an impassioned call to take the practices of musical improvisation often associated with jazz performance as a model for social-justice activism. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, immediate, expressive, ephemeral, and even accidental, while rights refer to formal standards of acceptable human conduct, rules that are permanent, impersonal, universal, abstract, and inflexible. Yet the authors not only suggest that improvisation and rights can be connected; they insist that ... Read more
The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, immediate, expressive, ephemeral, and even accidental, while rights refer to formal standards of acceptable human conduct, rules that are permanent, impersonal, universal, abstract, and inflexible. Yet the authors not only suggest that improvisation and rights can be connected; they insist that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822354642
SKU
V9780822354642
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About Daniel Fischlin
Daniel Fischlin is Professor and University Research Chair in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario. He is coauthor (with Martha Nandorfy) of The Community of Rights – The Rights of Community. Ajay Heble is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and an editor ... Read more
Reviews for The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
"The Fierce Urgency of Now is a groundbreaking and, in many instances, breathtaking book. Its focus on the ways that musicians from many backgrounds and genres think about and enact improvisation as linked to issues of human rights, community, and freedom is innovative, and the argument that human rights are expanded and valuably reconceptualized by improvisational practices is even more ... Read more