{"product_id":"playing-for-keeps-9781478006800","title":"Playing for Keeps","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003ePlaying for Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a way to negotiate violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Casting an eye on the world of improvisation, \u003ci\u003ePlaying for Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e is a major corrective to the latent ethnocentrism of improvisation studies and shifts the field's focus in a revolutionary way. The volume challenges readers to think more carefully and critically about the status of improvisation in various traditional cultural contexts and the intersection of those contexts found in contemporary society. A smart, decisive statement on globalism and improvisation.” -- John Corbett, author of * Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a rewarding project that is already extended by a special edition of the Journal Critical Studies In Improvisation and is to be further extended in a companion book now in progress.\" -- Phil England * The Wire *\u003cbr\u003e\"A major academic achievement, \u003ci\u003ePlaying for Keeps: Improvisation In The Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e is an enlightening examination of different manifestations of improvisation, their transforming possibilities, and of the ethics of listening.\" -- Ian Patterson * All About Jazz *\u003cbr\u003e\"I was deeply touched by the description of your experience of our visit to Ramallah and the camps together. I would sincerely hope that your book will be read by more than the academics and intelligentsia, it’s very important.\" -- John McLaughlin\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePlaying for Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e collects critical, thoughtfully selected on how musical improvisation can respond to and through trauma. . . . Case studies in this collection illustrate global improvisatory practices, framing them as solutions to encounters with difference that have failed in the past. These solutions seem especially timely for a world reckoning with dual crises: racism and disease. Each case study testifies to improvisation’s power to maintain and restore dignity through dialogic exchanges of creative response to horrific injustices, exchanges that facilitate co-creation of new community identities with an eye toward nurturing rather than perpetuating destruction. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.\" -- S. Schmalenberger * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“With beautifully written individual chapters on different musical events and communities, and each writer’s interpretation of improvisation in their research topic, [\u003ci\u003ePlaying for Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e] is significant as a collection of essays, and builds upon the growing field of interdisciplinary critical research on improvisation.” -- Rebecca Zola * Jazz Perspectives *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003ePlaying for a Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e] is a beacon of hope in times of crisis and will continue to be a reference point as the aftermaths of current crises persist in the years to come. The authors all outline ways in which improvisatory musics—and, more fundamentally, improvisation itself—can help those who suffer through and navigate crises and, afterward, salve the psychological wounds of the survivors.” -- Mike Ford * Current Musicology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Playing for Keeps: An Introduction \/ Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. manifesto \/ Matana Roberts  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eThe Exhibition of Vandalizim\u003c\/i\u003e: Improvising Healing, Politics, and Film in South Africa \/ Stephanie Vos  29\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Rigors of Afro\/Canarian Jazz: Sounding Peripheral Vision with Severed Tongues \/ Mark Lomanno  55\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Opening Up a Space That Maybe Wouldn't Exist Otherwise\" \/ \u003ci\u003eHolding It Down\u003c\/i\u003e in the Aftermath \/ Vijay Iyer in conversation with Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter  81\u003cbr\u003e 5. Experimental and Improvised Norths: The Sonic Geographies of Tanya Tagaq's Collaborations with Derek Charke and the Kronos Quartet \/ Kate Galloway  94\u003cbr\u003e 6. Nina Simone: CIVIL JAZZ! \/ Randy DuBurke  121\u003cbr\u003e 7. Free Improvised Music in Postwar Beirut: Differential Sounds, Intersectarian Collaborations, and Critical Collective Memory \/ Rana El Kadi  129\u003cbr\u003e 8. Street Concerts and Sexual Harassment in Post-Mubarak Egypt: \u003ci\u003eTarab\u003c\/i\u003e as Affective Politics \/ Darci Sprengel  160\u003cbr\u003e 9. Improvisation, Grounded Humanity, and Witnessing in Palestine: An Interview with Al-Mada's Odeh Turjman and Reem Abdul Hadi \/ Daniel Fischlin  191\u003cbr\u003e 10. \u003ci\u003eSilsulim\u003c\/i\u003e (Improvised \"Curls\") in the Vocal Performance of Israeli Popular Music: Identity, Power, and Politics \/ Moshe Morad  250\u003cbr\u003e 11. Three Moments in \u003ci\u003eKī Hō`alu\u003c\/i\u003e (Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar): Improvising as a \u003ci\u003eKanaka Maoli\u003c\/i\u003e (Native Hawaiian) Adaptive Strategy \/ Kevin Fellezs  275\u003cbr\u003e 12. From Prepeace to Postconflict: The Ethics of (Non) Listening and Cocreation in a Divided Society \/ Sara Ramshaw and Paul Stapleton  300\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  325\u003cbr\u003e Index  331","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408980746583,"sku":"9781478006800","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478006800.jpg?v=1730504953","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/playing-for-keeps-9781478006800","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}