Figuring improvisation

Elsdon, Peter

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
• 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