The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gathers contributions from more than sixty authors pioneering new scholarly approaches to improvisation in the arts, humanities, social, and natural sciences.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface to Volume I
- Introduction
- George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut
- I. Cognitions
- 1. Cognitive Processes in Musical Improvisation
- Roger Dean and Freya Bailes
- 2. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Improvisation
- Aaron L. Berkowitz
- 3. Improvisation, Action Understanding, and Music Cognition With and Without Bodies
- Vijay Iyer
- 4. The Ghost in the Music, or The Perspective of an Improvising Ant
- David Borgo
- II. Critical Theories
- 5. The Improvisative
- Tracy McMullen
- 6. jurisgenerative grammar (for alto)
- Fred Moten
- 7. Is Improvisation Present?
- Michael Gallope
- 8. Politics as Hypergestural Improvisation in the Age of Mediocracy
- Yves Citton
- 9. On the Edge: A Frame of Analysis for Improvisation
- Davide Sparti
- 10. The Salmon of Wisdom: On the Consciousness of Self and Other in Improvised Music and In the Language that Sets One Free
- Alexandre Pierrepont
- 11. Improvising Yoga
- Susan Leigh Foster
- III. Cultural Histories
- 12. Michel de Montaigne, or Philosophy as Improvisation
- Timothy Hampton
- 13. The Improvisation of Poetry, 1750-1850: Oral Performance, Print Culture, and the Modern Homer
- Angela Esterhammer
- 14. Germaine de Staël's Corinne, or Italy and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English
- Erik Simpson
- 15. Improvisation, Time, and Opportunity in the Rhetorical Tradition
- Glyn P. Norton
- 16. Improvisation, Democracy, and Feedback
- Daniel Belgrad
- IV. Mobilities
- 17. Improvised Dance in the Reconstruction of THEM
- Danielle Goldman
- 18. Improvising Social Exchange: African American Social Dance
- Thomas F. DeFrantz
- 19. Fixing Improvisation: Copyright and African American Vernacular Dancers in the Early Twentieth Century
- Anthea Kraut
- 20. Performing Gender, Race, and Power in Improv Comedy
- Amy Seham
- 21. Shifting Cultivation as Improvisation
- Paul Richards
- V. Organizations
- 22. Improvisation in Management
- Paul Ingram and Bill Duggan
- 23. Free Improvisation as a Path-Dependent Process
- Jared Burrows and Clyde G. Reed
- VI. Philosophies
- 24. Musical Improvisation and the Philosophy of Music
- Philip Alperson
- 25. Improvisation and Time-Consciousness
- Gary Peters
- 26. Improvising Impromptu, Or, What to Do with a Broken String
- Lydia Goehr
- 27. Ensemble Improvisation, Collective Intention, and Group Attention
- Garry L. Hagberg
- 28. Interspecies Improvisation
- David Rothenberg
- 29. Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism:
- With Special Reference to Sonny Rollins
- Arnold I. Davidson
- 30. Improvisation and Ecclesial Ethics
- Samuel Wells
