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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

  • Author: Fischlin, Daniel
  • Author: Heble, Ajay
  • Author: Lipsitz, George
A rather important book that seeks for the first time-or the first time with quite this level of intellectual rigor-to make clear the defining connections between improvisation and rights, and... More…

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Contents

  • Acknowledgments vii
  • Prelude. "The Fierce Urgency of Now"; Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation xi
  • Introduction. Dissolving Dogma: Improvisation, Rights, and Difference 1
  • 1. Sounding Truth to Power: Improvisation, Black Mobility, and Resources for Hope 33
  • 2. Improvisation and Encounter: Rights in the Key of Rifference 57
  • 3. Improvising Community: Rights and Improvisation as Encounter Narratives 99
  • 4. Improvisation, Social Movements, and Rights in New Orleans 141
  • 5. Art to Find the Pulse of the People: We Know This Place 171
  • 6. "The Fierce Urgency of Now": Improvisation, Social Practice, and Togetherness-in-Difference 189
  • Coda 231
  • Notes 245
  • Works Cited 263
  • Index 281