Title: Creativity in performance /
Authors: Sawyer, R. Keith
Publisher: Ablex,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Performing arts; Music; Improvisation (Acting); Improvisation (Music); Music Performance
Abstract: This book is for readers interested in the latest research on creativity in performance. The chapters cover an impressive interdisciplinary scope, and include studies of jazz, African dancing, improvisational theater, situation comedies, children's puppet plays, and Nepalese drumming. Each chapter speaks to broader themes that will be of interest to students and researchers in psychology, anthropology, communication, musicology, and performance studies.
Contents: Give and take: the collective conversation of jazz performance / Paul Berliner -- Musical improvisation: a systems approach / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Grant Rich -- What the drums had to say -- and what we wrote about them / David Henderson -- What's sound got to do with it? Jazz, poststructuralism, and the construction of cultural meaning / Ingrid Monson -- The creative decision-making process in group situation comedy writing / Steven Pritzker and Mark Runco -- Creativity in Ubakal, Dallas youth, and exotic dance / Judith Hanna -- Improvisational theater: an ethnotheory of conversational practice / R. Keith Sawyer -- School performance: improvisational processes in development and education / Jacquelyn Baker-Sennett and Eugene Matusov -- Responsive order: the phenomenology of dramatic and scientific performance / Robert Crease -- Poetics and performance as critical perspectives on language and social life / Richard Bauman and Charles Briggs -- The improvisational performance of culture in realtime discursive practice / Michael Silverstein.