The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2

Contents

• Preface to Volume II
• Introduction
• George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut
• I. Cities
• 1. Improvisation Technology as Mode of Redesigning the Urban
• Christopher Dell and Ton Matton
• 2. Lots Will Vary in the Available City
• David P. Brown
• 3. Improvising the Future in Post-Katrina New Orleans
• Eric Porter
• II. Creativities
• 4. Billy Connolly, Daniel Barenboim, Willie Wonka, Jazz Bastards, and the Universality of Improvisation
• Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson
• 5. A Computationally Motivated Approach to Cognition Studies in Improvisation
• Brian Magerko
• 6. A Consciousness-based Look at Spontaneous Creativity
• Ed Sarath
• 7. In the Beginning, There Was Improvisation
• Bruce Ellis Benson
• III. Musics
• 8. Landmarks in the Study of Improvisation: Perspectives from Ethnomusicology
• Bruno Nettl
• 9. Saving Improvisation: Hummel and the Free Fantasia in the Early Nineteenth Century
• Dana Gooley
• 10. Negotiating Freedom and Control in Composition: Improvisation and Its Offshoots, 1950 to 1980
• Sabine Feisst
• 11. Musical Improvisation: Play, Efficacy, and Significance
• A. J. Racy
• 12. Improvisation in Freestyle Rap
• Ellie M. Hisama
• 13. Speaking of the I-Word
• Leo Treitler
• IV. Writings
• 14. Modernist Improvisations
• Rob Wallace
• 15. Diversity and Divergence in the Improvisational Evolution of Literary Genres
• Jennifer D. Ryan
• 16. Improvisatory Practices and the Dawn of the New American Cinema
• Sara Villa
• 17. Brilliant Corners: Improvisation and Practices of Freedom in Sent for You Yesterday
• Walton Muyumba
• 18. Improvisation in Contemporary Experimental Poetry
• Hazel Smith
• V. Media
• 19. Subjective Computing and Improvisation
• D. Fox Harrell
• 20. Improvisation and Interaction, Canons and Rules, Emergence and Play
• Simon Penny
• 21. Imposture as Improvisation: Living Fiction
• Antoinette LaFarge
• 22. Role-Play, Improvisation, and Emergent Authorship
• Celia Pearce
• 23. Bodies, Border, Technology: The Promise and Perils of Telematic Improvisation
• Adriene Jenik
• 24. She Stuttered: Mapping the Spontaneous Middle
• Sher Doruff
• VI. Technologies
• 25. Live Algorithms for Music: Can Computers Be Improvisers?
• Michael Young and Tim Blackwell
• 26. Improvisation of the Masses: Anytime, Anywhere Mobile Music
• Ge Wang