{"title":"The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture, Dale Chapman","authors":"Asher Tobin Chodos","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4845","url":null,"abstract":"For jazz musicians who came of age in the 1990s, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) is a cultural touchstone as contested as the D.A.R.E. program or the Parental Advisory stickers that started appearing on album covers in the mid-1980s. As young jazz musicians grappling with the exacting pedagogy of the JALC organization, many of us sensed that there may have been something ideological behind its rigid dogmas, its conspicuous Brooks Brothers endorsement, its fancy dedicated building in midtown Manhattan, and—above all—its categorical rejection of some of the music we loved best. The polish and superhuman virtuosity of the JALC coterie simultaneously awed us, inspired us, and somehow rubbed us the wrong way. Dale Chapman’s book is a serious and probing attempt to subject that intuition to scholarly scrutiny. It asks, in other words, whether the neotraditionalism that took such hold of the jazz world in the 1990s really was “jazz for the Reagan revolution,” as David Hajdu notoriously characterized it in 2003. Readers already suspicious of the politics of neoclassical jazz will find some corroboration here, but Chapman’s more profound contribution is to remind us that the study of aesthetics can be of real value for the humanities more broadly.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116927987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvisation as Contingent Encounter, Or: The Song of My Toothbrush","authors":"Dan DiPiero","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4261","url":null,"abstract":"This article hazards a definition of improvisation as a \"contingent encounter,\" not in order to settle definitional debates, but in order to productively re-evaluate questions around improvisation as an aesthetic and socio-political force. Here, I argue that thinking improvisation through contingency highlights several key characteristics while leaving behind a set of problematic assumptions that often accompanies thinking improvisation in social spaces. First, I outline these characteristics, establishing what it might mean to bring contingency to bear on a musical performance. Subsequently, I compare two instances of \"transatlantic improvised music\": Eric Dolphy's \"Out to Lunch,\" and \"Waves, Linens, and White Light\" by contemporary free improvisers, Mr. K. I conclude by sketching some of the implications of taking this experimental definition seriously, arguing that it re-orients improvisation away from a rarefied behavior and more towards a potentiality hidden inside each moment.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"402 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116511615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvising Through Trauma","authors":"Neelamjit Dhillon","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.3560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.3560","url":null,"abstract":"This paper highlights the positive role that improvisation can have in addressing trauma, and the utililization of improvisation within music therapy and creative music practice. After a brief overview of these topics, the musical piece Wisconsin is examined. Practical insights are gained into the use of improvisation as an effective tool to address and alleviate trauma within the Sikh community. Improvisation can serve as a powerful device to speak to trauma, uncover unconscious experiences, and move towards healing.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117333377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A History of Violence","authors":"Rinaldo Walcott","doi":"10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6507","url":null,"abstract":"Rinaldo Walcott discusses the intersections between the COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality in this contribution to the special issue.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132591899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"moojigizi","authors":"Olivia Shortt","doi":"10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6308","url":null,"abstract":"Olivia Shortt's contribution for the COVID-19 Special Issue.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116968265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slowing Down","authors":"Nathan A. Moore","doi":"10.21083/csieci.v14i2.6419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/csieci.v14i2.6419","url":null,"abstract":"The paper relates my experience as an improvising musician responding to COVID. In particular, the practice of recording solo improvisations that are then sent to colleagues for them to overdub an improvised response (and vice versa).","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117241317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}