Improvisation and Social Aesthetics

by Eric Lewis

Book Overview

Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms--from jazz and cinema to dance and literature--this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic. As a catalyst for social experiment and political practice, improvisation aids in the creation, contestation, and codification of social realities and identities. Among other topics, the contributors discuss the social aesthetics of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361949
• ISBN13: 9780822361947
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.7"