The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz Transnational Studies in Jazz Series
Auteur : Schuiling Floris
The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz tradition by describing the history and practice of one of the most important non-American jazz groups: The Instant Composers Pool, founded in Amsterdam in 1967.
The Instant Composers Pool describes the meaning of "instant composition" from both a historical and ethnographic perspective. Historically, it details instant composition?s emergence from the encounter between various overlapping transnational avant-gardes, including free jazz, serialism, experimental music, electronic music, and Fluxus. The author shows how the improvising musicians not only engaged with the cultural politics of ethnicity and race involved in the negotiation of the boundaries of jazz as a cultural practice, but transformed the meaning of music in society?particularly the nature of improvisation and performance. Ethnographically, The Instant Composers Pool encourages readers to reconsider the conceptual tools we use to describe music performance, improvisation, and creativity. It takes the practice of "instant composition" as an opportunity to reflect on music performance as a social practice, which is crucial not only for jazz studies, but for general music scholarship.
Introduction / PART I: Beyond Jazz History / Chapter 1. Performance Art and Ludic Countercultures / Chapter 2. Genre Boundaries: The ICP and Jazz / Chapter 3. Political Activism in Contemporary Music / PART II: Beyond Jazz Practice / Chapter 4. The Ontology of Instant Composition / Chapter 5. Notation and Distributed Creativity / Chapter 6. Antagonism, Resistance, and Humour / Bibliography / Index
Floris Schuiling is Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Media & Culture, Utrecht University.
Date de parution : 10-2018
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 10-2018
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes de The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz :
Mots-clés :
Reinbert De Leeuw; Free Improvisation; jazz; jazz history; jazz studies; ethnomusicology; instant composers pool; performance studies; improvisation; improvise; instant composition; free jazz; experimental music; electronic music; creativity; music; music scholarship; De Volharding; Willem Breuker; Misha Mengelberg; Improvised Music; Peter Schat; Thelonious Monk; Instant Composition; Lennie Tristano; ICP Group; Free Jazz; Dutch Jazz; West Germany; Fluxus Events; Mozart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Concertgebouw Orchestra; Dutch Musicians; UK Musician; Play Things; Fluxus Performances; European Improvisers; Fluxus Concert; Albert Ayler