The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and author of the award-winning 2008 book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music.Benjamin Piekut, Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University, writes on the history of experimental and improvised music after 1960. He is the author of Experimentalism Otherwise (2011) and editor of Tomorrow Is the Question (2014).

• Preface to Volume I IntroductionGeorge E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut I. Cognitions 1. Cognitive Processes in Musical ImprovisationRoger Dean and Freya Bailes 2. The Cognitive Neuroscience of ImprovisationAaron L. Berkowitz 3. Improvisation, Action Understanding, and Music Cognition With and Without BodiesVijay Iyer 4. The Ghost in the Music, or The Perspective of an Improvising AntDavid Borgo II. Critical Theories 5. The ImprovisativeTracy McMullen 6. jurisgenerative grammar (for alto)Fred Moten 7. Is Improvisation Present?Michael Gallope 8. Politics as Hypergestural Improvisation in the Age of MediocracyYves Citton 9. On the Edge: A Frame of Analysis for ImprovisationDavide Sparti 10. The Salmon of Wisdom: On the Consciousness of Self and Other in Improvised Music and In the Language that Sets One FreeAlexandre Pierrepont 11. Improvising YogaSusan Leigh Foster III. Cultural Histories 12. Michel de Montaigne, or Philosophy as ImprovisationTimothy Hampton 13. The Improvisation of Poetry, 1750-1850: Oral Performance, Print Culture, and the Modern HomerAngela Esterhammer 14. Germaine de Staël's Corinne, or Italy and the Early Usage of Improvisation in EnglishErik Simpson 15. Improvisation, Time, and Opportunity in the Rhetorical TraditionGlyn P. Norton 16. Improvisation, Democracy, and FeedbackDaniel Belgrad IV. Mobilities 17. Improvised Dance in the Reconstruction of THEMDanielle Goldman 18. Improvising Social Exchange: African American Social DanceThomas F. DeFrantz 19. Fixing Improvisation: Copyright and African American Vernacular Dancers in the Early Twentieth CenturyAnthea Kraut 20. Performing Gender, Race, and Power in Improv ComedyAmy Seham 21. Shifting Cultivation as ImprovisationPaul Richards V. Organizations 22. Improvisation in ManagementPaul Ingram and Bill Duggan 23. Free Improvisation as a Path-Dependent ProcessJared Burrows and Clyde G. Reed VI. Philosophies 24. Musical Improvisation and the Philosophy of MusicPhilip Alperson 25. Improvisation and Time-ConsciousnessGary Peters 26. Improvising Impromptu, Or, What to Do with a Broken StringLydia Goehr 27. Ensemble Improvisation, Collective Intention, and Group AttentionGarry L. Hagberg 28. Interspecies ImprovisationDavid Rothenberg 29. Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism: With Special Reference to Sonny RollinsArnold I. Davidson 30. Improvisation and Ecclesial EthicsSamuel Wells