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  • The Improviser's Classroom

    Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking

    Edited by Daniel Fischlin, Mark Lomanno ...
    Series series Insubordinate Spaces
    An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser’s Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care.Demonstrating how improvisation can inform scenes of teaching and learning, this volume also ... Read more

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  • Sound Changes

    Improvisation and Transcultural Difference

    Sound Changes responds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance. These factors range from the intimate affect ... Read more

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  • Playing for Keeps

    Improvisation in the Aftermath

    Edited by Daniel Fischlin, Eric Porter ...
    Series series Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
    The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism. Outlining the relation of improvisatory practices to local and global power structures, they show how in sites as varied as South Africa, Canada, Egypt, the United States, and the Canary Islands ... Read more

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  • OuterSpeares

    Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation

    For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation, noted scholars of Shakespeare and new media consider the ways in which various media affect how we understand Shakespeare and his works.Daniel Fischlin and his collaborators explore a wide ... Read more

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  • The Fierce Urgency of Now

    Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

    Series series Improvisation, community, and social practice
    The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are ... Read more

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  • Adaptations of Shakespeare

    An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present

    Edited by Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier ...
    Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher The History of King Lear Nahum Tate King Stephen: A Fragment of a ... Read more

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    A Critical Introduction

    What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the years since the book’s initial publication. Including contributions from scholars of music, cultural ... Read more

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  • Performing Ethnomusicology

    Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

    Edited by Ted Solis ...
    Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning ... Read more

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  • Resounding Afro Asia

    Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration

    Series series American Musicspheres
    Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound in the very face of the ghettoizing culture industry. Giving voice to four ... Read more

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  • The Improvisation Studies Reader

    Spontaneous Acts

    Edited by Ajay Heble, Rebecca Caines ...
    Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry, becoming a cornerstone of both practical and theoretical approaches to performance.The Improvisation Studies Reader draws together the works of key artists and ... Read more

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  • Improvisation and Music Education

    Beyond the Classroom

    Edited by Ajay Heble, Mark Laver ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Music Education
    This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading musicians, scholars, and teachers from around the world, the volume articulates how improvisation can breathe new life into old curricula; how it can help teachers and students to communicate more effectively; how it can break down damaging ideological ... Read more

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  • Negotiated Moments

    Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity

    Series series Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
    The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered, sexed, raced, classed, disabled, and technologized body at the center of critical improvisation studies ... Read more

    $28.79 USD