TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nettl,Bruno
AU  - Russell,Melinda
ED  - University of Chicago.
TI  - In the course of performance: studies in the world of musical improvisation 
SN  - 0226574105
AV  - ML430.7 .I47 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Improvisation (Music)
KW  - Ethnomusicology
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Musicology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; An art neglected in scholarship; / Bruno Nettl; -- Recognizing improvisation; / Stephen Blum; -- Psychological constraints on improvisational expertise and communication; / Jeff Pressing; -- Do Javanese gamelan musicians really improvise?; / R. Anderson Sutton; -- Improvisation, ecstasy, and performance dynamics in Arabic music; / Ali Jihad Racy; -- Go on, girl!:Improvisation in African-American girls' singing games; / Eve Harwood; -- Improvisation in Latin American dance music: history and style; / Peter Manuel; -- Oh freedom: George Russel, John Coltrane, and modal jazz; / Ingrid Monson --Improvisation and group interaction in Italian lyrical singing; / Tulla Magrini; -- Exploding the belly: improvisation in Cantonese opera; / Sau Y. Chan; -- Melodic improvisation in Karṇāṭak music: the manifestations of Rāga; / T. Viswanathan and Jody Cormack; -- Setting the stage: Clara Schumann's preludes; / Valerie Woodring Goertzen; -- A sense of the possible: Miles Davies and the semiotics of improvised performance; / Chris Smith; -- The improvisation of Louis Armstrong; / Lawrence Gushee; -- Keeping it going: terms, practices, and processes of improvisation in Hindustānī instrumental music; / Stephen Slawek; -- Taqsim Nahawand revisited: the musicianship of Jihad Racy; / Bruno Nettl and Ronald Riddle
N2  - "This volume presents several studies of musical improvisation in a number of cultures and repertories using a variety of approaches."-- Introduction pg. 1
ER  -