Fischlin / Heble / Lipsitz The Fierce Urgency of Now

Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7835-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Improvisation, community, and social practice

The Fierce Urgency of Now offers an impassioned call to take the practices of musical improvisation often associated with jazz performance as a model for social-justice activism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischlin, Daniel

Heble, Ajay

Lipsitz, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Fischlin is Professor and University Research Chair in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario. He is coauthor (with Martha Nandorfy) of The Community of Rights – The Rights of Community.Ajay Heble is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and an editor (with Rob Wallace) of People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!, also published by Duke University Press. He is the founder and artistic director of the Guelph Jazz Festival.George Lipsitz is Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including How Racism Takes Place and Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music.