{"product_id":"the-fierce-urgency-of-now-improvisation-rights-and-the-ethics-of-cocreation-paperback","title":"The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Fischlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAjay Heble\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge Lipsitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fierce Urgency of Now\u003c\/i\u003e links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, immediate, expressive, ephemeral, and even accidental, while rights refer to formal standards of acceptable human conduct, rules that are permanent, impersonal, universal, abstract, and inflexible. Yet the authors not only suggest that improvisation and rights \u003ci\u003ecan \u003c\/i\u003ebe connected; they insist that they \u003ci\u003emust\u003c\/i\u003e be connected. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImprovisation is the creation and development of new, unexpected, and productive cocreative relations among people. It cultivates the capacity to discern elements of possibility, potential, hope, and promise where none are readily apparent. Improvisers work with the tools they have in the arenas that are open to them. Proceeding without a written score or script, they collaborate to envision and enact something new, to enrich their experience in the world by acting on it and changing it. By analyzing the dynamics of particular artistic improvisations, mostly by contemporary American jazz musicians, the authors reveal improvisation as a viable and urgently needed model for social change. In the process, they rethink politics, music, and the connections between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Community of Rights - The Rights of Community\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAjay Heble is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and an editor (with Rob Wallace) of \u003ci\u003ePeople Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press. He is the founder and artistic director of the Guelph Jazz Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Lipsitz is Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eHow Racism Takes Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFootsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.15 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773641195808,"sku":"9780822354789","price":46.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5d899d5e81e914a944a3a1f04f5e5727_d7e2ab0d-fb34-4a4e-89c5-a204a5eb57ce.webp?v=1780429638","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-fierce-urgency-of-now-improvisation-rights-and-the-ethics-of-cocreation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}