The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2

George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and author of the award-winning 2008 book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press).An associate professor of music at Cornell University, Benjamin Piekut writes on the history of experimental and improvised music after 1960. He is the author of Experimentalism Otherwise (University of California Press, 2011) and editor of Tomorrow Is the Question (University of Michigan Press, 2014).

• Preface to Volume IIIntroductionGeorge E. Lewis and Benjamin PiekutI. Cities1. Improvisation Technology as Mode of Redesigning the UrbanChristopher Dell and Ton Matton2. Lots Will Vary in the Available CityDavid P. Brown3. Improvising the Future in Post-Katrina New OrleansEric PorterII. Creativities4. Billy Connolly, Daniel Barenboim, Willie Wonka, Jazz Bastards, and the Universality of ImprovisationRaymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson5. A Computationally Motivated Approach to Cognition Studies in ImprovisationBrian Magerko6. A Consciousness-based Look at Spontaneous CreativityEd Sarath7. In the Beginning, There Was ImprovisationBruce Ellis BensonIII. Musics8. Landmarks in the Study of Improvisation: Perspectives from EthnomusicologyBruno Nettl9. Saving Improvisation: Hummel and the Free Fantasia in the Early Nineteenth CenturyDana Gooley10. Negotiating Freedom and Control in Composition: Improvisation and Its Offshoots, 1950 to 1980Sabine Feisst11. Musical Improvisation: Play, Efficacy, and SignificanceA. J. Racy12. Improvisation in Freestyle RapEllie M. Hisama13. Speaking of the I-WordLeo TreitlerIV. Writings14. Modernist ImprovisationsRob Wallace15. Diversity and Divergence in the Improvisational Evolution of Literary GenresJennifer D. Ryan16. Improvisatory Practices and the Dawn of the New American CinemaSara Villa17. Brilliant Corners: Improvisation and Practices of Freedom in Sent for You YesterdayWalton Muyumba18. Improvisation in Contemporary Experimental PoetryHazel SmithV. Media19. Subjective Computing and ImprovisationD. Fox Harrell20. Improvisation and Interaction, Canons and Rules, Emergence and PlaySimon Penny21. Imposture as Improvisation: Living FictionAntoinette LaFarge22. Role-Play, Improvisation, and Emergent AuthorshipCelia Pearce23. Bodies, Border, Technology: The Promise and Perils of Telematic ImprovisationAdriene Jenik24. She Stuttered: Mapping the Spontaneous MiddleSher DoruffVI. Technologies25. Live Algorithms for Music: Can Computers Be Improvisers?Michael Young and Tim Blackwell26. Improvisation of the Masses: Anytime, Anywhere Mobile MusicGe Wang