The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

Preface to Volume I

Introduction George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut

I. Cognitions

1. Cognitive Processes in Musical Improvisation Roger Dean and Freya Bailes

2. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Improvisation Aaron L. Berkowitz

3. Improvisation, Action Understanding, and Music Cognition With and Without Bodies Vijay Iyer

4. The Ghost in the Music, or The Perspective of an Improvising Ant David Borgo

II. Critical Theories

5. The Improvisative Tracy McMullen

6. jurisgenerative grammar (for alto) Fred Moten

7. Is Improvisation Present? Michael Gallope

8. Politics as Hypergestural Improvisation in the Age of Mediocracy Yves Citton

9. On the Edge: A Frame of Analysis for Improvisation Davide Sparti

10. The Salmon of Wisdom: On the Consciousness of Self and Other in Improvised Music and In the Language that Sets One Free Alexandre Pierrepont

11. Improvising Yoga Susan Leigh Foster

III. Cultural Histories

12. Michel de Montaigne, or Philosophy as Improvisation Timothy Hampton

13. The Improvisation of Poetry, 1750-1850: Oral Performance, Print Culture, and the Modern Homer Angela Esterhammer

14. Germaine de Staël's Corinne, or Italy and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English Erik Simpson

15. Improvisation, Time, and Opportunity in the Rhetorical Tradition Glyn P. Norton

16. Improvisation, Democracy, and Feedback Daniel Belgrad

IV. Mobilities

17. Improvised Dance in the Reconstruction of THEM Danielle Goldman

18. Improvising Social Exchange: African American Social Dance Thomas F. DeFrantz

19. Fixing Improvisation: Copyright and African American Vernacular Dancers in the Early Twentieth Century Anthea Kraut

20. Performing Gender, Race, and Power in Improv Comedy Amy Seham

21. Shifting Cultivation as Improvisation Paul Richards

V. Organizations

22. Improvisation in Management Paul Ingram and Bill Duggan

23. Free Improvisation as a Path-Dependent Process Jared Burrows and Clyde G. Reed

VI. Philosophies

24. Musical Improvisation and the Philosophy of Music Philip Alperson

25. Improvisation and Time-Consciousness Gary Peters

26. Improvising Impromptu, Or, What to Do with a Broken String Lydia Goehr

27. Ensemble Improvisation, Collective Intention, and Group Attention Garry L. Hagberg

28. Interspecies Improvisation David Rothenberg

29. Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism: With Special Reference to Sonny Rollins Arnold I. Davidson

30. Improvisation and Ecclesial Ethics Samuel Wells