Other Side of Nowhere Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue

Name: Other Side of Nowhere Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue
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ISBN: 9780819566829

ISBN-10: 0819566829

ISBN-13: 9780819566829

Edition: 2004

Authors: Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, Ingrid Monson

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A breakthrough book in the emergent fields of improvisation and cultural theory, The Other Side of Nowhere conveys the spirit and energy of an experimental celebration. The volume is divided into four sections: writings of musicians about improvising; examinations of inter- and cross-cultural dialogue; discussions of social practice and identity; and essays about collaborative dissonance. The 17 essays present jazz improvisation as a cultural practice with far-reaching ramifications. Music is treated not merely as an artistic phenomenon, but as a social force with the power to effect substantial change among people of marginalized races, genders, sexualities and ethnicities. The collection…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 462
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Performers Improvise


A Composition on Improvisation



Harmonic Anatomy: Women in Improvisation



"Navigable Structures and Transforming Mirrors": Improvisation and Interactivity



Between and Across Cultures


Transmissions of an Interculture: Pan-African Jazz and Intercultural Improvisation



Improvised Music After 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives



Afterward to "Improvised Music after 1950": The Changing Same



Improvising in a Different Clave: Steve Coleman and AfroCuba de Matanzas



Social Practice and Identity


"...A Way Out of No Way": Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Black Social Improvisation



Playing like a Girl: The Queer Laughter of the Feminist Improvising Group



Bordering on Community: Improvising Women Improvising Women-in-Jazz



Improvising Character: Jazz, the Actor, and Protocols of Improvisation



Improvisation and Imitation: Marlon Brando as Jazz Actor



Cutting Sides: Jazz Record Producers and Improvisation



Collaborative Dissonances


The Discourse of a Dysfunctional Drummer: Collaborative Dissonances, Improvisation, and Cultural Theory



Paracritical Hinge



Out of Nowhere: Meditations on Deleuzian Music, Anti-Cadential