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Book SynopsisPlacing the body at the center of critical improvisation studies, the contributors to
Negotiated Moments explore the challenges of negotiating subjectivity through improvisation in various forms—from jazz, Japanese taiko drumming, and Iranian classical music to sound walking and political street theater.
Trade Review"Collective insights touch on a number of themes that cut to the core of critical improvisation studies. . . . The editors of
Negotiated Moments have assembled an impressive and diverse array of studies." -- Joel V. Hunt * Notes *
"A timely and relevant collection guiding the way for a radically inclusive approach to critical studies of improvisation. . . . One of the outstanding intellectual contributions of this book lies in its presentation of so many viable alternatives to prevailing dominant views about improvised music focused on individual genius and legitimacy of lineage." -- Miki Kaneda * Journal of the Society for American Music *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi
Introduction: Improvising at the Nexus of Discursive and Material Bodies / Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman 1
1. Improvisation within a Scene of Constraint: An Interview with Judith Butler / Tracy McMullen 21
Part I. Listening, Place, and Space
2. "How Am I to Listen to You?": Soundwalking, Intimacy, and Improvised Listening / Andra McCartney 37
3. Community Sound [e]Scapes: Improvising Bodies and Site/Space/Place in New Media Audio Art / Rebecca Caines 55
Part II. Technology and Embodiment
4. Improvising Composition: How to Listen to the Time Between / Pauline Oliveros 75
5. The Networked Body: Physicality, Embodiment, and Latency in Multisite Performance / Jason Robinson 91
6. Openness from Closure: The Puzzle of Interagency in Improvised Music and a Neocybernetic Solution / David Borgo 113
7. Mediating the Improvising Body: Art Tatum's Postmortem Performance in a Posthuman World / Andrew Raffo Dewar 131
Part III. Sensibility and Subjectivity
8. Banding Encounters: Embodied Practices in Improvisation / Introduction and Conclusion by Tomie Hahn; Essays by Louise Campbell, Lindsay Vogt, Simon Rose, George Blake, Catherine Lee, Sherrie Tucker, François Mouillot, Jovana Milovic, and Pete Williams
9. Learning to Go with the Flow: David Rokeby's
Very Nervous System and the Improvising Body / Jesse Stewart 169
10. Stretched Boundaries: Improvising across Abilities / Introduction and Conclusion by Sherrie Tucker; Essays by Pauline Oliveros, Neil Rolnick, Christine Sun Kim, Clara Tomaz, David Whalen, Leif Miller, and Jaclyn Heyen 181
Part IV. Gender, Trauma, and Memory
11. The Erotics of Improvisation in Ann-Marie MacDonald's
Fall on Your Knees / Gillian Sidall 201
12.
Corregidora: Corporeal Archaeology, Embodied Memory, Improvisation / Nina Sun Eidsheim and Mandy-Suzanne Wong
13. Theorizing the Saxophonic Scream in Free Jazz Improvisation / Zachary Wallmark 233
14. Extemporaneous Genomics: Nicole Mitchell, Octavia Butler, and
Xenogenesis / Kevin McNeilly and Julie Dawn Smith 245
Part V. Representation and Identity
15. Faster and Louder: Heterosexist Improvisation in North American Taiko / Deborah Wong 265
16. Improvisation and the Audibility of Difference: Safa, Canadian Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Recognition / Ellen Waterman 281
17. Performing the National Body Politic in Twenty-First-Century Argentina / Illa Carrillo Rodríguez and Berenice Corti 307
Discography 327
References 329
Contributors 351
Index 355
