Improvising Improvisation: From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature

by Gary Peters

Book Overview

There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide range of human activity. This book is nothing like that. In a provocative and at times moving experiment, Gary Peters takes a different approach, turning the philosophy of improvisation upside-down and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022675927X
• ISBN13: 9780226759272
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"