In the Course of Performance

Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Art Neglected in Scholarship by Bruno Nettl
The Concept and Its Ramifications
1. Recognizing Improvisation by Stephen Blum
2. Psychological Constraints on Improvisational Expertise and Communication by Jeff Pressing
3. Do Javanese Gamelan Musicians Really Improvise? by R. Anderson Sutton
Improvisation as Music and in Culture
4. Improvisation, Ecstasy, and Performance Dynamics in Arabic Music by Ali Jihad Racy
5. Go On, Girl! Improvisation in African-American Girls' Singing Games by Eve Harwood
6. Improvisation in Latin American Dance Music: History and Style by Peter Manuel
7. Oh Freedom: George Russell, John Coltrane, and Modal Jazz by Ingrid Monson
8. Improvisation and Group Interaction in Italian Lyrical Singing by Tullia Magrini
9. Exploding the Belly: Improvisation in Cantonese Opera by Sau Y. Chan
10. Melodic Improvisation in Karnatak Music: The Manifestations of Raga by T. Viswanathan and Jody Cormack
Studies of Individual Artists
11. Setting the Stage: Clara Schumann's Preludes by Valerie Woodring Goertzen
12. A Sense of the Possible: Miles Davis and the Semiotics of Improvised Performance by Chris Smith
13. The Improvisation of Louis Armstrong by Lawrence Gushee
14. Keeping It Going: Terms, Practices, and Processes of Improvisation in Hindustani Instrumental Music by Stephen Slawek
15. Taqsim Nahawand Revisited: The Musicianship of Jihad Racy by Bruno Nettl and Ronald Riddle
Contributors
Index