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The Bitter but Beautiful Struggle: Improvisation and Imagination in New Orleans
This article articulates how the art of improvisation has shaped the contours of Black culture in...
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The Challenge of the Changing Same: The Jazz Avant-Garde of the 1960s, the Black Aesthetic and the Black Arts Movement
This essay focuses on the relationship between writers associated with the Black Arts Movement in...
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The Control of Acoustic Intensity During Jazz and Free Improvisation Performance: Possible Transcultural Implications for Social Discourse and Community
This paper demonstrates the predominance of a pattern of acoustic intensity change in recorded...
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The Creative Life of Law: Improvisation, Between Tradition and Suspicion
Originally applying solely to chefs, waiters, dishwashers and the like, New York City regulations...
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The Improvisation Reading Group: Decentralized Dance Party Manifesto: "Boomboxes, Anarchy, and the Commons"
Dr. Michael MacDonald presents the Decentralized Dance Party to the Improvisation Reading Group. Dr...
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The Improvisation Toolkit Resource List
List of external resources relevant to the Improvisation Toolkit. Includes sources on Games, School...
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The Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Project: Some Thoughts on Outreach, Partnership, and Policy
ARTICLE: This talk, given at the Canadian New Music Network Forum in Halifax in January 2010, gives...
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The improvisational creativity of expert teachers
Exploring teaching as performance, teacher expertise, and creativity in teaching, this article...
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The Improvising Eye
VIDEO: An improvised documentary series examining the ICASP project's research, objectives,...
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The Improvising Eye: Community
VIDEO: Part 4 of 5 in a documentary series on the ICASP project's objectives, research, and...
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The Improvising Eye: Genesis
VIDEO: Part 1 of 5 in a documentary series on the ICASP project's objectives, research, and...
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The Improvising Eye: Research in Practice
VIDEO: Part 3 of 5 in a documentary series on the ICASP project's objectives, research, and...
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The Improvising Eye: Understanding
VIDEO: Part 2 of 5 in a documentary series on the ICASP project's objectives, research, and...
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The Improvising Eye: Utopia
VIDEO: Part 5 of 5 in a documentary series examining the ICASP project's research, objectives...
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The Neutral Mask
Professional actor and theatre instructor and ICASP student Ron East profiles the learning...
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The Pedagogical Imperative of Musical Improvisation
This essay responds to the twinned questions, "How do musicians learn to improvise?" and...
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