The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies · Volume 1 by Lewis, George E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Contributors to Volume 1 Introduction: On Critical Improvisation Studies Part I Cognitions

1. Cognitive Processes in Musical Improvisation 2. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Improvisation 3. Improvisation, Action Understanding, and Music Cognition with and without Bodies 4. The Ghost in the Music, or the Perspective of an Improvising Ant

Part II Critical Theories

5. The Improvisative 6. Jurisgenerative grammar (for alto) 7. Is Improvisation Present? 8. Politics as Hypergestural Improvisation in the Age of Mediocracy 9. On the Edge: A Frame of Analysis for Improvisation 10. The Salmon of Wisdom: On the Consciousness of Self and Other in Improvised Music and in the Language that Sets One Free 11. Improvising Yoga

Part III Cultural Histories

12. Michel de Montaigne, or Philosophy as Improvisation 13. The Improvisation of Poetry, 1750–1850: Oral Performance, Print Culture, and the Modern Homer 14. Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English 15. Improvisation, Time, and Opportunity in the Rhetorical Tradition 16. Improvisation, Democracy, and Feedback

Part IV Mobilities

17. Improvised Dance in the Reconstruction of THEM 18. Improvising Social Exchange: African American Social Dance 19. Fixing Improvisation: Copyright and African American Vernacular Dancers in the Early Twentieth Century 20. Performing Gender, Race, and Power in Improv Comedy 21. Shifting Cultivation as Improvisation

Part V Organizations

22. Improvisation in Management 23. Free Improvisation as a Path-Dependent Process

Part VI Philosophies

24. Musical Improvisation and the Philosophy of Music 25. Improvisation and Time-Consciousness 26. Improvising Impromptu, Or, What to Do with a Broken String 27. Ensemble Improvisation, Collective Intention, and Group Attention 28. Interspecies Improvisation 29. Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism: With Special Reference to Sonny Rollins 30. Improvisation and Ecclesial Ethics

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