The other side of nowhere : jazz, improvisation, and communities in dialogue / edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble.

Other author Fischlin, Daniel, editor.
Other author Heble, Ajay, 1961- editor.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoMiddletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxvi, 439 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Jazz--History and criticism.
Improvisation (Music)--History.
Jazz--Social aspects.

SeriesMusic/culture
Music/culture. ^A390481
Contents The other side of nowhere: jazz, improvisation, and communities in dialogue / Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble -- A composition on improvisation / Michael Snow -- Harmonic anatomy: women in improvisation / Pauline Oliveros -- "Navigable structures and transforming mirrors": improvisation and interactivity / Dana Reason -- Transmissions of an interculture: pan-African jazz and intercultural improvisation / Jason Stanyek -- Improvised music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological perspectives / George E. Lewis -- Afterword to "Improvised music after 1950": the changing same / George E. Lewis -- Improvising in a different clave: Steve Coleman and AfroCuba de Matanzas / Michael Dessen -- " ... A way out of no way": jazz, hip-hop, and black social improvisation / Mark Anthony Neal -- Playing like a girl: the queer laughter of the feminist improvising group / Julie Dawn Smith -- Bordering on community: improvising women improvising women-in-jazz / Sherrie Tucker -- Improvising character: jazz, the actor, and protocols of improvisation / Marshall Soules -- Improvisation and imitation: Marlon Brando as jazz actor / Krin Gabbard -- Cutting sides: jazz record producers and improvisation / Michael Jarrett -- The discourse of a dysfunctional drummer: collaborative dissonances, improvisation, and cultural theory / Eddie Prévost -- Paracritical hinge / Nathaniel Mackey -- Out of nowhere: meditations on Deleuzian music, anti-cadential strategies, and endpoints in improvisation / John Corbett -- Toward further dialogue: a bibliography on improvisation / Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, and Benjamin Lefebvre.
Abstract This breakthrough book in the emergent fields of improvisation and cultural theory conveys the spirit and energy of an experimental celebration. The volume is divided into four sections: writings of musicians about improvising; examinations of inter- and cross-cultural dialogue; discussions of social practice and identity; and essays about collaborative dissonance. The 17 essays present jazz improvisation as a cultural practice with far-reaching ramifications. Music is treated not merely as an artistic phenomenon, but as a social force with the power to effect substantial change among people of marginalized races, genders, sexualities and ethnicities. The collection argues that there is a distinctive relationship between the emergence of free jazz, the desire for social justice and activist practices. This is a groundbreaking book that offers multiple perspectives on the art of jazz improvisation--it will inspire readers to create, collaborate and dissent.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 397-416) and index.
LCCN 2003019192
ISBN0819566810 (alk. paper)
ISBN0819566829 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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