Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
ISBN: 9780822374015
Platform/Publisher: e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: chapter
Subjects: Music; Performance Studies/ Theater Studies; Cultural Studies;

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.


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 Studies at McGill University and the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock .
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