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Improvisation informs a vast array of human activities, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. These volumes gather scholarship on improvisation from a similarly wide range of perspectives, with contributions from more than 60 scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

Preface ... xi
Acknowledgments ...xv
Contributors to Volume 1 ...xvii
Introduction: On Critical Improvisation Studies
George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut ...1

PART I COGNITIONS
1. Cognitive Processes in Musical Improvisation
Roger T. Dean and Freya Bailes ...39
2. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Improvisation
Aaron L. Berkowitz ...56
3. Improvisation, Action Understanding, and Music Cognition with and without Bodies
Vijay Iyer ...74
4. The Ghost in the Music, or the Perspective of an Improvising Ant
David Borgo ...91

Part II CRITICAL THEORIES
5. The Improvisative
Tracy McMullen ...115
6. Jurisgenerative grammar (for alto)
Fred Moten ...128
7. Is Improvisation Present?
Michael Gallope ...143
8. Politics as Hypergestural Improvisation in the Age of Mediocracy
Yves Citton ...160
9. On the Edge: A Frame of Analysis for Improvisation
Davide Sparti ...182
10. The Salmon of Wisdom: On the Consciousness of Self and Other in Improvised Music and in the Language that Sets One Free
Alexandre Pierrepont ...202
11. Improvising Yoga
Susan Leigh Foster ...217

Part III CULTURAL HISTORIES
12. Michel de Montaigne, or Philosophy as Improvisation
Timothy Hampton ...227
13. The Improvisation of Poetry, 1750–1850: Oral Performance, Print Culture, and the Modern Homer
Angela Esterhammer ...239
14. Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English
Erik Simpson ...255
15. Improvisation, Time, and Opportunity in the Rhetorical Tradition
Glyn P. Norton ...262
16. Improvisation, Democracy, and Feedback
Daniel Belgrad ...289

Part IV MOBILITIES
17. Improvised Dance in the Reconstruction of THEM
Danielle Goldman ...309
18. Improvising Social Exchange: African American Social Dance
Thomas F. DeFrantz ...330
19. Fixing Improvisation: Copyright and African American Vernacular Dancers in the Early Twentieth Century
Anthea Kraut ...339
20. Performing Gender, Race, and Power in Improv Comedy
Amy Seham ...354
21. Shifting Cultivation as Improvisation
Paul Richards ...365

Part V ORGANIZATIONS
22. Improvisation in Management
Paul Ingram and William Duggan ...385
23. Free Improvisation as a Path-Dependent Process
Jared Burrows and Clyde G. Reed ...396

Part VI PHILOSOPHIES
24. Musical Improvisation and the Philosophy of Music
Philip Alperson ...419
25. Improvisation and Time-Consciousness
Gary Peters ...439
26. Improvising Impromptu, Or, What to Do with a Broken String
Lydia Goehr ...458
27. Ensemble Improvisation, Collective Intention, and Group Attention
Garry L. Hagberg ...481
28. Interspecies Improvisation
David Rothenberg ...500
29. Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism: With Special Reference to Sonny Rollins
Arnold I. Davidson ...523
30. Improvisation and Ecclesial Ethics
Samuel Wells ...539
Index ...553