Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath

Book Overview

The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism. Outlining the relation of improvisatory practices to local and global power structures, they show how in sites as varied as South Africa, Canada, Egypt, the United States, and the Canary Islands, improvisation provides the means for its participants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008148
• ISBN13: 9781478008149
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"