The Improvisation Studies Reader

Introduction Part 1: Listening 1. Improvised Listening: Opening statements - George Lipsitz 2. On Listening - Jean Luc Nancy 3. Improvisation: Silence before words - Jacques Lecoq 4. Going Fragile - Mattin 5. Music, Language, and Cultural Styles: Improvisation as conversation - Ingrid Monson 6. Interview - Peter Cusack 7. Deep Listening Meditations - Egypt (1999) - Pauline Oliveros Part 2: Trust/Risk 8. Improvised Trust: Opening Statements - Ellen Waterman 9. Improvisation - Konstantin Stanislavski 10. Impro - Keith Johnstone 11. Thoughts on Improvisation: A comparative approach - Bruno Nettl 12. Group Creativity: Musical Performance and Collaboration - Keith Sawyer 13. The Theatre as Language: Theatre of the Oppressed - Augusto Boal 14. Community Arts Practices: Improvising being together - Petra Kuppers 15. "Paradise Now": Notes - Judith Malina and Julian Beck 16. Chicanas' Experience in Collective Theatre: Ideology and form - Yvonee Yarbro-Bejarano 17. Spontaneous Combustion: Notes on dance improvisation from the sixties to the nineties - Sally Banes 18. Collective Creation - Alan Filewood 19. Cobra - John Zorn Part 3. Flow 20. Improvised Flow: Opening Statements - Susan Leigh Foster 21. A Theoretical Model for Enjoyment - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 22. Graphic Score - Anthony Braxton 23. The Impermanent Art - Merce Cunningham 24. Improvisation and the Ensemble - Michael Chekhov 25. Theory of the Derive - Guy Debord 26. Flow, Layering, Rupture in Hip-Hop - Tricia Rose 27. Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism - Rob Wallace 28. Graphic Score (Hearing Visions Sonores) - Germaine Lio and Nicholas Loess 29. Essentials of Spontaneous Prose - Jack Kerouac Part 4. Dissonance 30. Improvised Dissonance: Opening Statements - Jesse Stewart 31. Phantoms of the Other: Fragments of the Communal Unconscious - Rustom Bharucha 32. Bebop as Cultural Alternative - Daniel Belgrad 33. Happenings: An introduction - Michael Kirby 34. Other: From noun to verb - Nathaniel Mackey 35. Play Like a Girl: The queer laughter of the feminist improvising group - Julie Dawn Smith 36. Causing a Scene with ImprovEverywhere - Charlie Todd 37. Improvising Digital Culture - Paul D. Milelr (DJ Spooky) and Vijay Iyer Part 5. Responsibility 38. Improvised Reponsibility: Opening statements - Daniel Fischlin 39. Gittin To Know Y'all: Improvised music, interculturalism, and the racial imagination - George E. Lewis 40. Interview - Fred Frith 41. Kinship, Intelligence and Memory as Improvisation: Culture and performance in New Orleans - Joseph Roach 42: The Changing Same: R&B and new black music - Amiri Baraka 43: By Any Means Necessary - Malcolm X Part 6: Liveness 44. Improvised Liveness: Opening statements 45. Liveness - Philip Auslander 46. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron 47. The Present of Performance - Hans-Thies Lehman 48. Interview - Pierre Hebert Part 7. Surprise 49. Improvising Surprise: Opening statements - Rachel Rosenthal 50. Playing - Richard Schechner 51. Taken by Surprise - Susan Foster 52. Seven Aspects of Spontaneity - Viola Spolin 53. Yoruba Play and the Transformation of Ritual - Margaret Thompson Drewal 54. Play On: Collaboration and Process - Tim Etchells 55. Step Across the Border - Nicholas Humbert and Werner Penzel Part 8. Hope 56. Improvised Hope: Concluding statements - Robin Kelley