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The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, immediate, expressive, ephemeral, and even accidental, while rights refer to formal standards of acceptable human conduct, rules that are permanent, impersonal, universal, abstract, and inflexible. Yet the authors not only suggest that improvisation and rights can be connected; they insist that they must be connected.Improvisation is the creation and development of new, unexpected, and productive cocreative relations among people. It cultivates the capacity to discern elements of possibility, potential, hope, and promise where none are readily apparent. Improvisers work with the tools they have in the arenas that are open to them. Proceeding without a written score or script, they collaborate to envision and enact something new, to enrich their experience in the world by acting on it and changing it. By analyzing the dynamics of particular artistic improvisations, mostly by contemporary American jazz musicians, the authors reveal improvisation as a viable and urgently needed model for social change. In the process, they rethink politics, music, and the connections between them.
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9780822354642 | Duke Univ Pr, June 14, 2013, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses.
Paperback:
9780822354789 | Duke Univ Pr, June 14, 2013, cover price $23.95
Hardcover:
9780822354086 | Duke Univ Pr, May 17, 2013, cover price $94.95
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9780822354253 | Duke Univ Pr, May 17, 2013, cover price $25.95
Product Description: A breakthrough book in the emergent fields of improvisation and cultural theory, The Other Side of Nowhere conveys the spirit and energy of an experimental celebration. The volume is divided into four sections: writings of musicians about improvising; examinations of inter- and cross-cultural dialogue; discussions of social practice and identity; and essays about collaborative dissonance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780819566812 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 30, 2004, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: A breakthrough book in the emergent fields of improvisation and cultural theory, The Other Side of Nowhere conveys the spirit and energy of an experimental celebration.
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9780819566829 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 30, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A breakthrough book in the emergent fields of improvisation and cultural theory, The Other Side of Nowhere conveys the spirit and energy of an experimental celebration.
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9781551642314 | Black Rose Books Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $53.99
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9781551642307 | Black Rose Books Ltd, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.99
Product Description: An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415923484 | Routledge, February 1, 2001, cover price $135.00
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9780415923491 | Routledge, February 1, 2001, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.
Miscellaneous:
9780203901007 | Routledge, November 7, 2000, cover price $32.95
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9781551111063 | Broadview Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $29.95
Product Description: Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do not, say or tell...read more
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9780802006172 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $46.00
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9781442613065 | Univ of Toronto Pr, November 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'.
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