Review: Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw

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Book Review| August 01 2019 Review: Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw. Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. vii, 345 pp. Rob Wallace Rob Wallace ROB WALLACE is a Lecturer in the Honors College at Northern Arizona University. In addition to numerous articles, reviews, recordings, and poetry, he is the author of Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism (Continuum, 2010) and coeditor of People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now! (Duke University Press, 2013). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2019) 72 (2): 595–599. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.2.595 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rob Wallace; Review: Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, edited by Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2019; 72 (2): 595–599. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.2.595 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, the latest volume in the series Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice published by Duke University Press, is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding field of critical improvisation studies. Indeed, many of the book's contributors are innovators in the field, and many are also directly involved with the international research project that inspired the book series, now called the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, or IICSI. (The present reviewer is a Research Associate of this institute.) The book itself originated in a conference held at McGill University in 2010, one of the many symposia that generated IICSI. This brief context is important, since many musicologists may not be directly familiar with IICSI, and because a wide swath of the research coming from IICSI is beyond the range of conventional musicological discourse. Nevertheless, as the presence of figures such as Georgina Born, Lisa Barg, and... You do not currently have access to this content.