Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, Will Straw.
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Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music formsâ€"from jazz and cinema to dance and literatureâ€"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 Wave cinema, and the work of figures ranging from bell hooks and Billy Strayhorn to Kenneth Goldsmith.
9780822374015
Music / History & Criticism
Music
Music
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Access copy available to the general public.
Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music formsâ€"from jazz and cinema to dance and literatureâ€"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 Wave cinema, and the work of figures ranging from bell hooks and Billy Strayhorn to Kenneth Goldsmith.
9780822374015
Music / History & Criticism
Music
Music
Electronic books.