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Review: Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw

Review: Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw Improvisation and Social Aesthetics , edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw. Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. vii, 345 pp. Improvisation and Social Aesthetics , the latest volume in the series Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice published by Duke University Press, is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding field of critical improvisation studies. Indeed, many of the book's contributors are innovators in the field, and many are also directly involved with the international research project that inspired the book series, now called the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, or IICSI. (The present reviewer is a Research Associate of this institute.) The book itself originated in a conference held at McGill University in 2010, one of the many symposia that generated IICSI. This brief context is important, since many musicologists may not be directly familiar with IICSI, and because a wide swath of the research coming from IICSI is beyond the range of conventional musicological discourse. Nevertheless, as the presence of figures such as Georgina Born, Lisa Barg, and Nicholas Cook suggests, music and musicological research provide the disciplinary background for most of the essays in Improvisation and Social Aesthetics . Like much of the work in the field of critical improvisation studies, interdisciplinary research in the present volume often refers back to or is modeled on ideas and insights from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and other music-centric fields. That being said, much of the focus of Improvisation and Social Aesthetics (as the title suggests) is on the complex interrelationship between sometimes seemingly disparate categories. Or rather, as coeditors Born, Eric Lewis, … http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Musicological Society University of California Press

Review: Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw

Wallace, Rob
Journal of the American Musicological Society , Volume 72 (2): 5 – Aug 1, 2019
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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics , edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw. Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. vii, 345 pp. Improvisation and Social Aesthetics , the latest volume in the series Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice published by Duke University Press, is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding field of critical improvisation studies. Indeed, many of the book's contributors are innovators in the field, and many are also directly involved with the international research project that inspired the book series, now called the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, or IICSI. (The present reviewer is a Research Associate of this institute.) The book itself originated in a conference held at McGill University in 2010, one of the many symposia that generated IICSI. This brief context is important, since many musicologists may not be directly familiar with IICSI, and because a wide swath of the research coming from IICSI is beyond the range of conventional musicological discourse. Nevertheless, as the presence of figures such as Georgina Born, Lisa Barg, and Nicholas Cook suggests, music and musicological research provide the disciplinary background for most of the essays in Improvisation and Social Aesthetics . Like much of the work in the field of critical improvisation studies, interdisciplinary research in the present volume often refers back to or is modeled on ideas and insights from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and other music-centric fields. That being said, much of the focus of Improvisation and Social Aesthetics (as the title suggests) is on the complex interrelationship between sometimes seemingly disparate categories. Or rather, as coeditors Born, Eric Lewis, …

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