The Fierce Urgency of Now – Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

The Fierce Urgency of NowImprovisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation\nAuthor(s): Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822354642, 978-0822354642\nSynopsis\nThe 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 tha.