Improvisation as Art: Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives

by Edgar Landgraf

Improvisation as Art traces how modernity's emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned from "high art" in the eighteenth century simultaneously enabled the inventive reintegration of improvisation into modernism.

After an in-depth exploration of contemporary theoretical contentions surrounding improvisation, Landgraf examines how the new emphasis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162892957X
• ISBN13: 9781628929577
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"