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"

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 development. He also focuses on the importance of black "...

Free Jazz: Deconstricting Derridean Genre Theory

This article examines Derridean genre theory by probing the connection between Jacques Derrida's concern over taxonomic approaches to genre and his...

From Both Sides Now: Improvising Across Communities

VIDEO: A documentary film about an artistic residency held by MedeaElectronique, an Athens-based collective focused on the creation and presentation...

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 broader social understandings of various forms of...

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 standard notation with morphological notation,...

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 experimental music communities that emerged at around...

Giving Back Time: Improvisation in Australian Hip-Hop Pedagogy and Performance

This article documents improvisatory practices in Australian community-based hip-hop, with reference to the work of Australian hip-hop artists...

Graphic Notation

The article argues for the use of open systems of musical composition and notation, which allow for individuals from radically different musical and...