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Dystopias
VIDEO: Dr. Wong discusses the notion of America as nation founded upon the dystopian notion of...
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Ecstasy of Influence: Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday
Dr. O'Meally uses this lecture to discuss Billie Holiday as an ecstatic listener who was...
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EDITORIAL: Creating Momentum: Improvisation, Pedagogy, and Interconnectivity
An introductory editorial by Frédérique Arroyas to CSI/ECI Volume 7, Number 2 (2011).
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EDITORIAL: Improvocracy?
In Daniel Fischlin's editorial and overview to this issue of Critical Studies in Improvisation...
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Ethnographic Methodology for the Artist-Scholar: Experiential Representation in a Decentered Improvising Community
This poster displays an ethnographic methodology which allows for collaboration between researcher...
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Fission and Fusion: From Improvisation to Formalism in Law and Music
Law and classical music are both performative disciplines. Both became concerned with practices of...
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Fred Ho Plays Malcolm X: A Review of Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
George Elliott Clarke reviews "Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader"
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Fred Ho's Tribute to the Black Arts Movement: Personal and Political Impact and Analysis
In this essay Fred Ho reflects upon how the Black Arts Movement impacted his own personal...
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Free Jazz: Deconstricting Derridean Genre Theory
This article examines Derridean genre theory by probing the connection between Jacques Derrida...
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From Both Sides Now: Improvising Across Communities
VIDEO: A documentary film about an artistic residency held by MedeaElectronique, an Athens-based...
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From the Margins to the Mainstream: Jazz, Social Relations, and Discourses of Value
This paper examines the manner in which particular discourses have served to shape and influence...
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General Semantics of Standard Spectromorphological Notation in Phone Sax for Tenor Saxophone and Tape
This poster, presented at the 2008 Summer Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, compares...
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Gittin' to Know Y'all: Improvised Music, Interculturalism and the Racial Imagination
This essay examines one of the first extensively documented musical collaborations between two...
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Giving Back Time: Improvisation in Australian Hip-Hop Pedagogy and Performance
This article documents improvisatory practices in Australian community-based hip-hop, with...
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Graphic Notation
The article argues for the use of open systems of musical composition and notation, which allow for...
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