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Figuring improvisation

Elsdon, Peter

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Nicholas Gebhardt
Editor

Nichole Rustin-Paschal
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Tony Whyton
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Abstract

Improvisation is often regarded as a central, constitutive, and even defining element of jazz, and as a result it has figured large in jazz studies. This chapter sets out to explore the contingency of improvisation, looking at how it has been figured by different discourses on jazz. In doing so I trace the ways a range of different literature has considered the idea from historical, analytical, cultural, and other perspectives.

Citation

Elsdon, P. (2019). Figuring improvisation. In N. Gebhardt, N. Rustin-Paschal, & T. Whyton (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (221-230). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315315805-21

Acceptance Date Mar 16, 2018
Publication Date Jan 30, 2019
Deposit Date May 20, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Routledge
Pages 221-230
Series Title Routledge music companions
Book Title Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies
Chapter Number 21
ISBN 9781315315799; 9781138231160
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315315805-21
Keywords jazz, improvisation
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/756934
Publisher URL https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315315805-21