The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

Contents

• Preface to Volume I
• Introduction
• George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut
• I. Cognitions
• 1. Cognitive Processes in Musical Improvisation
• Roger Dean and Freya Bailes
• 2. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Improvisation
• Aaron L. Berkowitz
• 3. Improvisation, Action Understanding, and Music Cognition With and Without Bodies
• Vijay Iyer
• 4. The Ghost in the Music, or The Perspective of an Improvising Ant
• David Borgo
• II. Critical Theories
• 5. The Improvisative
• Tracy McMullen
• 6. jurisgenerative grammar (for alto)
• Fred Moten
• 7. Is Improvisation Present?
• Michael Gallope
• 8. Politics as Hypergestural Improvisation in the Age of Mediocracy
• Yves Citton
• 9. On the Edge: A Frame of Analysis for Improvisation
• Davide Sparti
• 10. The Salmon of Wisdom: On the Consciousness of Self and Other in Improvised Music and In the Language that Sets One Free
• Alexandre Pierrepont
• 11. Improvising Yoga
• Susan Leigh Foster
• III. Cultural Histories
• 12. Michel de Montaigne, or Philosophy as Improvisation
• Timothy Hampton
• 13. The Improvisation of Poetry, 1750-1850: Oral Performance, Print Culture, and the Modern Homer
• Angela Esterhammer
• 14. Germaine de Stael's Corinne, or Italy and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English
• Erik Simpson
• 15. Improvisation, Time, and Opportunity in the Rhetorical Tradition
• Glyn P. Norton
• 16. Improvisation, Democracy, and Feedback
• Daniel Belgrad
• IV. Mobilities
• 17. Improvised Dance in the Reconstruction of THEM
• Danielle Goldman
• 18. Improvising Social Exchange: African American Social Dance
• Thomas F. DeFrantz
• 19. Fixing Improvisation: Copyright and African American Vernacular Dancers in the Early Twentieth Century
• Anthea Kraut
• 20. Performing Gender, Race, and Power in Improv Comedy
• Amy Seham
• 21. Shifting Cultivation as Improvisation
• Paul Richards
• V. Organizations
• 22. Improvisation in Management
• Paul Ingram and Bill Duggan
• 23. Free Improvisation as a Path-Dependent Process
• Jared Burrows and Clyde G. Reed
• VI. Philosophies
• 24. Musical Improvisation and the Philosophy of Music
• Philip Alperson
• 25. Improvisation and Time-Consciousness
• Gary Peters
• 26. Improvising Impromptu, Or, What to Do with a Broken String
• Lydia Goehr
• 27. Ensemble Improvisation, Collective Intention, and Group Attention
• Garry L. Hagberg
• 28. Interspecies Improvisation
• David Rothenberg
• 29. Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism:
• With Special Reference to Sonny Rollins
• Arnold I. Davidson
• 30. Improvisation and Ecclesial Ethics
• Samuel Wells