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The fierce urgency of now : improvisation, rights, and the ethics of co-creation / Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, and George Lipsitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischlin, Daniel.
- Series:
- Improvisation, community, and social practice.
- Improvisation, community, and social practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Improvisation (Music).
- Human rights movements.
- African Americans--Political activity.
- African Americans.
- Politics and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354789
- 0822354780
- 9780822378358
- 0822378353
- OCLC:
- 1139377754
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