"The Fierce Urgency of Now" links musical improvisation to
struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between
the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human
rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at
first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to
incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes
practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, immediate,
expressive, ephemeral, and even accidental, while rights refer to
formal standards of acceptable human conduct, rules that are
permanent, impersonal, universal, abstract, and inflexible. Yet the
authors not only suggest that improvisation and rights "can "be
connected; they insist that they "must" be connected.
Improvisation is the creation and development of new,
unexpected, and productive cocreative relations among people. It
cultivates the capacity to discern elements of possibility,
potential, hope, and promise where none are readily apparent.
Improvisers work with the tools they have in the arenas that are
open to them. Proceeding without a written score or script, they
collaborate to envision and enact something new, to enrich their
experience in the world by acting on it and changing it. By
analyzing the dynamics of particular artistic improvisations,
mostly by contemporary American jazz musicians, the authors reveal
improvisation as a viable and urgently needed model for social
change. In the process, they rethink politics, music, and the
connections between them.
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