Umfang:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780822374015
Serie:
Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Ser.
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Is Social Aesthetics? -- Part I: The Social and the Aesthetic -- Chapter 1. After Relational Aesthetics: Improvised Music, the Social, and (Re)Theorizing the Aesthetic -- Chapter 2. Scripting Social Interaction: Improvisation, Performance, and Western "Art" Music -- Chapter 3. From the American Civil Rights Movement to Mali: Reflections on Social Aesthetics and Improvisation -- Chapter 4. From Network Bands to Ubiquitous Computing: Rich Gold and the Social Aesthetics of Interactivity -- Part II: Genre and Definition -- Chapter 5. The Social Aesthetics of Swing in the 1940s: Or the Distribution of the Non-Sensible -- Chapter 6. What Is "Great Black Music"? The Social Aesthetics of the AACM in Paris -- Chapter 7. Kenneth Goldsmith and Uncreative Improvisation -- Part III: Sociality and Identity -- Chapter 8. Strayhorn's Queer Arrangements -- Chapter 9. What's Love Got to Do with It? Creating Art, Creating Community, Creating a Better World -- Chapter 10. Improvisation in New Wave Cinema: Beneath the Myth, the Social -- Part IV: Performance -- Chapter 11. Social Aesthetics and Transcultural Improvisation: Wayde Compton and the Performance of Black Time -- Chapter 12. Devices of Existence: Contact Improvisation, Mobile Performances, and Dancing through Twitter -- Chapter 13. The Dramaturgy of Spontaneity: Improvising the Social in Theater -- References -- Contributors' Biographies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780822361787
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780822361787
Sprache:
Englisch
