The Fierce Urgency of Now : Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation /

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The Fierce Urgency of Now offers an impassioned call to take the practices of musical improvisation often associated with jazz performance as a model for social-justice activism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fischlin, Daniel (Author), Lipsitz, George (Author), Heble, Ajay, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and culture.
Improvisation (Music)
Human rights movements.
Civil rights movements.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Politique et culture.
Noirs americains > Activite politique.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme.
Improvisation (Musique)
African Americans > Political activity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sounding truth to power : improvisation, black mobility, and resources for hope
  • Improvisation and encounter: rights in the key of rifference
  • Improvising community : rights and improvisation as encounter narratives
  • Improvisation, social movements, and rights in New Orleans
  • Art to find the pulse of the people : we know this place
  • "The fierce urgency of now" : improvisation, social practice, and togetherness-in-difference.

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