The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz tradition by describing the history and practice of one of the most important non-American jazz groups: The Instant Composers Pool, founded in Amsterdam in 1967.

Autorentext

Floris Schuiling is Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Media & Culture, Utrecht University.

Klappentext

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz tradition by describing the history and practice of one of the most important non-American jazz groups: The Instant Composers Pool, founded in Amsterdam in 1967.

Inhalt

Introduction / PART I: Beyond Jazz History / Chapter 1. Performance Art and Ludic Countercultures / Chapter 2. Genre Boundaries: The ICP and Jazz / Chapter 3. Political Activism in Contemporary Music / PART II: Beyond Jazz Practice / Chapter 4. The Ontology of Instant Composition / Chapter 5. Notation and Distributed Creativity / Chapter 6. Antagonism, Resistance, and Humour / Bibliography / Index