Philosophy of Improvisation : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice

This quantity brings collectively philosophical and interdisciplinary views on improvisation. The contributions join the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with completely different viewpoints on its apply within the arts and the classroom.

The chapters tackle the phenomenon of improvisation in two associated methods. On the one hand, they attend to the lived practices of improvisation each inside and with out the humanities with a view to clarify the phenomenon. In addition they prolong the scope of improvisational practices to incorporate the position of improvisation in behavior and in deliberate motion, at each particular person and collective ranges. Drawing on current work finished within the philosophy of thoughts, they tackle questions akin to whether or not improvisation is a single unified phenomenon or whether or not it entails completely different senses that may be discerned theoretically and virtually. Lastly, they ask after the particular sort of improvisational experience which characterizes musicians, dancers, and different practitioners, an experience marked by the artist’s skill to take part competently in complicated conditions whereas intentionally relinquishing management.

Philosophy of Improvisation will attraction to anybody with a robust curiosity in improvisation, to researchers working in philosophy, aesthetics, and pedagogy in addition to practitioners concerned in several sorts of music, dance, and theater performances.