دانلود کتاب The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished

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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents List of Figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The positive value of imperfection Chapter 1: The aesthetics of imperfectionThe finished work, and process versus product Chapter 2: Taking aim at imperfection Chapter 3: The aesthetics of imperfection Chapter 4: Reflections on the value of imperfection in crafts through the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi Chapter 5: Built from the root, ever-changing at the bloom: The role of imperfection in systems of musical phonology, morphology and syntax Chapter 6: Imperfect world Part II: Social and cultural context Chapter 7: A socially situated approach to aesthetics: Games and challenges in Karnatak music Chapter 8: A social aesthetics of imperfectionSpontaneity and meaning in pop on the streets of China Chapter 9: Age, process and self-raising flour Chapter 10: Learning music aesthetics through imperfection: The transmission of shakuhachi music Part III: Composition versus improvisation Chapter 11: The interdependence of composition and improvisation Chapter 12: Improvising beyond Hamilton’s aesthetics of imperfection Chapter 13: Better than perfect: Dave Brubeck and the aesthetics of imperfection Chapter 14: The aesthetics of imperfection in jazz and free improvisation Chapter 15: Decisions, revisions, intentions and integrity: A subjective understanding of composition and improvisation Chapter 16: A literary aesthetic of perfection and imperfection Part IV: Interpretation and freedom Chapter 17: Embracing serendipity in classicalperformance Chapter 18: That is not freedom, that is taking licence: The pitfalls in performing Morton Feldman’s graph scores Chapter 19: Expanding the ideal: Systemic music as a dialogue of becoming Part V: Risk, disruption and failure Chapter 20: Live coding and failure Chapter 21: The aesthetics of failure Chapter 22: The mistake as material Chapter 23: The aesthetics of imperfection: Mistakes and hearing what you intend Chapter 24: Risk in improvisation and in comedy Chapter 25: Risk, failure and courage: Improvisation and stand-up comedy Chapter 26: Inciting uncertainty Chapter 27: Championing risk and discovery: Satoko Fujii and the experimental composition-improvisation continuum Part VI: Collaboration in performance Chapter 28: Imperfect unity and productive frictions: Ethics and aesthetics of play in dance improvisation Chapter 29: Cross purposes: Imperfect interactions when improvising with others Chapter 30: An audience for free jazz: Joe McPhee Interviewed Chapter 31: Is love too strong a term? The dissolution of distinction between aesthetics and sociality in a moving orchestra Part VII: The instrumental impulse Chapter 32: The instrumental impulse: Developing a free improvisation vocabulary for alternative keyboard instruments Chapter 33: Rarely heard, small unwanted sounds form the focus Chapter 34: The disagreeable subject of Varèse’s father: In conversation with David Brown Chapter 35: The Necks on the aesthetics of imperfection Chapter 36: Stardust: Seeing and imagining what isn’t there Part VIII: Finished and unfinished work Chapter 37: Architecture of imperfection: Unfinished sketches and Burke’s sublime Chapter 38: Still water moves Chapter 39: Notating perfection? Beethoven and the late string quartets Index