Negotiated moments
Subtitle: improvisation, sound, and subjectivity
By: Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman, editors
Series: Improvisation, community, and social practice; Improvisation, community, and social practice
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780822360827; 9780822360964; 9780822374497
Subjects: Sound; Subjectivity in music; Improvisation (Music); Social aspects; Music; Subjectivity; Performance; Human body (Philosophy); Physiological aspects
Description: "The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered, sexed, raced, classed, disabled, and technologized body at the center of critical improvisation studies and move beyond the field's tendency toward celebrating improvisation's utopian and democratic ideals by highlighting the improvisation of marginalized subjects. Rejecting a singular theory of improvisational agency, the contributors show how improvisation helps people gain hard-won and highly contingent agency"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349), discography (page 327), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Improvising at the nexus of discursive and material bodies  -- Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman; title: Improvisation within a scene of constraint : an interview with Judith Butler -- Tracy McMullen; title: Listening, place, and space.; title: "How am I to listen to you"? : soundwalking, intimacy, and improvised listening  -- Andra McCartney; title: Community sound [e]scapes : improvising bodies and site/space/ place in new media audio art -- Rebecca Caines; title: Technology and embodiment.; title: Improvising composition : how to listen in the time between  -- Pauline Oliveros; title: The networked body : physicality, embodiment, and latency in multisite performance  -- Jason Robinson; title: Openness from closure : the puzzle of interagency in improvised music and a neocybernetic solution  -- David Borgo; title: Mediating the improvising body : Art Tatum's postmortem performance in a posthuman world  -- Andrew Raffo Dewar; title: 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 Milović, and Pete Williams; title: Learning to go with the flow : David Rokeby's Very nervous system and the improvising body  -- Jesse Stewart; title: Stretched boundaries : improvising across abilities -- introduction and conclusion by Sherrie Tucker ; essays by Pauline Oliveros, Neil Rolnick, Christine Sun Kim, Clara Tomaz, David Whalen, Leaf Miller, and Jaclyn Heyen; title: Gender, trauma, and memory.; title: The erotics of improvisation in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your knees  -- Gillian Siddall; title: Corregidora : corporeal archaeology, embodied memory, improvisation  -- Nina Sun Eidsheim and Mandy-Suzanne Wong; title: Theorizing the saxophonic scream in free jazz improvisation  -- Zachary Wallmark; title: Extemporaneous genomics : Nicole Mitchell, Octavia Butler, and Xenogenesis -- Kevin McNeilly and Julie Dawn Smith; title: Representation and identity.; title: Faster and louder : heterosexist improvisation in North American taiko  -- Deborah Wong; title: Improvisation and the audibility of difference : safa, Canadian multiculturalism, and the politics of recognition  -- Ellen Waterman; title: Performing the national body politic in twenty-first-century Argentina -- Illa Carrillo Rodríguez and Berenice Corti.