{"product_id":"improvisation-and-social-aesthetics-paperback","title":"Improvisation and Social Aesthetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorgina Born\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEric Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWill Straw\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms--from jazz and cinema to dance and literature--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. Across its diverse chapters, \u003ci\u003eImprovisation and Social Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e argues that ensemble improvisation is not inherently egalitarian or emancipatory, but offers a potential site for the cultivation of new forms of social relations. It sets out a new conceptualization of the aesthetic as immanently social and political, proposing a new paradigm of improvisation studies that will have reverberations throughout the humanities. \u003cbr\u003eContributors. Lisa Barg, Georgina Born, David Brackett, Nicholas Cook, Marion Froger, Susan Kozel, Eric Lewis, George E. Lewis, Ingrid Monson, Tracey Nicholls, Winfried Siemerling, Will Straw, Zoë Svendsen, Darren Wershler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Oxford and the editor of \u003ci\u003eMusic, Sound, and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eric Lewis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Video Art of Sylvia Safdie\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Will Straw is Professor of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.7 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52710332694835,"sku":"9780822361947","price":71.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TEtWUlJzY0JyYm1JZXkwQms3NlJXUT09.webp?v=1763488914","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/improvisation-and-social-aesthetics-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}