Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz

The Fierce Urgency of Now

Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Daniel Fischlin is Professor and University Research Chair in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario. He is coauthor (with Martha Nandorfy) of The Community of Rights – The Rights of Community. Ajay Heble is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and an editor (with Rob Wallace) of People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!, also published by Duke University Press. He is the founder and artistic director of the Guelph Jazz Festival. George Lipsitz is Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including How Racism Takes Place and Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354642
• ISBN-10: 0822354640
• Artikelnr.: 36692267

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Prelude. "The Fierce Urgency of Now"; Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics
of Cocreation xi
Introduction. Dissolving Dogma: Improvisation, Rights, and Difference 1
1. Sounding Truth to Power: Improvisation, Black Mobility, and Resources
for Hope 33
2. Improvisation and Encounter: Rights in the Key of Rifference 57
3. Improvising Community: Rights and Improvisation as Encounter Narratives
99
4. Improvisation, Social Movements, and Rights in New Orleans 141
5. Art to Find the Pulse of the People: We Know This Place 171
6. "The Fierce Urgency of Now": Improvisation, Social Practice, and
Togetherness-in-Difference 189
Coda 231
Notes 245
Works Cited 263
Index 281