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Table of Contents:

• Volume 1. Introduction: On critical improvisation studies / George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut
• Part I. Cognitions. Cognitive processes in musical improvisation / Roger T. Dean and Freya Bailes
• The cognitive neuroscience of improvisation / Aaron L. Berkowitz
• Improvisation, action understanding, and music cognition with and without bodies / Vijay Iyer
• The ghost in the music, or the perspective of an improvising ant / David Borgo
• Part II Critical theories. The improvisative / Tracy McMullen
• Jurisgenerative grammar (for alto) / Fred Moten
• Is improvisation present? / Michael Gallope
• Politics as hypergestural improvisation in the age of mediocracy / Yves Citton
• On the edge: a frame of analysis for improvisation / Davide Sparti
• The Salmon of Wisdom: on the consciousness of self and other in improvised music and in the language that sets one free / Alexandre Pierrepont
• Improvising yoga / Susan Leigh Foster
• Part III. Cultural histories. Michel de Montaigne, or philosophy as improvisation / Timothy Hampton
• The improvisation of poetry, 1750-1850: oral performance, print culture, and the modern Homer / Angela Esterhammer
• Germaine de Staèel's Corinne, or Italy and the early usage of improvisation in English / Erik Simpson
• Improvisation, time, and opportunity in the rhetorical tradition / Glyn P. Norton
• Improvisation, democracy, and feedback / Daniel Belgrad
• Part IV. Mobilities. Improvised dance in the reconstruction of THEM / Danielle Goldman
• Improvising social exchange: African American social dance / Thomas F. DeFrantz
• Fixing improvisation: copyright and African American vernacular dancers in the early twentieth century / Anthea Kraut

• Performing gender, race, and power in improv comedy / Amy Seham
• Shifting cultivation as improvisation / Paul Richards
• Part V. Organizations. Improvisation in management / Paul Ingram and William Duggan
• Free improvisation as a path-dependent process / Jared Burrows and Clyde G. Reed
• Part VI. Philosophies. Musical improvisation and the philosophy of music / Philip Alperson
• Improvisation and time-consciousness / Gary Peters
• Improvising Impromptu, or, What to do with a broken string / Lydia Goehr
• Ensemble improvisation, collective intention, and group attention / Garry L. Hagberg
• Interspecies improvisation / David Rothenberg
• Spiritual exercises, improvisation, and moral perfectionism: with special reference to Sonny Rollins / Arnold I. Davidson
• Improvisation and ecclesial ethics / Samuel Wells
• Volume 2. Introduction: On critical improvisation studies / George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut
• Part I. Cities. Improvisation technology as mode of redesigning the urban / Christopher Dell and Ton Matton
• Lots will vary in the available city / David P. Brown
• Improvising the future in post-Katrina New Orleans / Eric Porter
• Part II. Creativities. Billy Connolly, Daniel Barenboim, Willie Wonka, jazz bastards, and the universality of improvisation / Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson
• A computationally motivated approach to cognition studies in improvisation / Brian Magerko
• A consciousness-based look at spontaneous creativity / Ed Sarath
• In the beginning, there was improvisation / Bruce Ellis Benson
• Part III. Musics. Landmarks in the study of improvisation: perspectives from ethnomusicology / Bruno Nettl
• Saving improvisation: Hummel and the free fantasia in the early nineteenth century / Dana Gooley
• Negotiating freedom and control in composition: improvisation and its offshoots, 1950-1980 Sabine Feisst
• Musical improvisation: play, efficacy, and significance / A.J. Racy
• Improvisation in freestyle rap / Ellie M. Hisama
• Speaking of the I-word / Leo Treitler
• Part IV. Writings. Modernist improvisations / Rob Wallace
• Diversity and divergence in the improvisational evolution of literary genres / Jennifer D. Ryan
• Improvisatory practices and the dawn of the new American cinema / Sara Villa
• Brilliant corners: improvisation and practices of freedom in Sent for you yesterday / Walton Muyumba
• Improvisation in contemporary experimental poetry Hazel Smith
• Part V. Media. Subjective computing and improvisation / D. Fox Harrell
• Improvisation and interaction, canons and rules, emergence and play / Simon Penny
• Imposture as improvisation: living fiction / Antoinette LaFarge
• Role-play, improvisation, and emergent authorship / Celia Pearce
• Bodies, border, technology: the promise and perils of telematic improvisation / Adriene Jenik
• She stuttered: mapping the spontaneous middle / Sher Doruff
• Part VI. Technologies. Live algorithms for music: can computers be improvisers? / Michael Young and Tom Blackwell
• Improvisation of the masses: anytime, anywhere mobile music / Ge Wang.

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Contributors:

Lewis, George, 1952- , editor

Piekut, Benjamin, 1975- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Oxford handbook of critical improvisation studies (New York : Oxford University Press, 2016 — ISBN 9780199707935)

Related Series:

Oxford handbooks

Subjects:

Improvisation (Music)

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Call Numbers:

MT68 .O94 2016

ISBNs:

9780195370935 (hardcover, volume 1, alkaline paper)
0195370937
9780199892921 (hardcover, volume 2, alkaline paper)
019989292X

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015041014

OCLC Numbers:

928750684