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dc.contributor.authorReardon-Smith, Hannah
dc.contributor.authorDenson, Louise
dc.contributor.authorTomlinson, Vanessa
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-09T04:10:24Z
dc.date.available2020-03-09T04:10:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn0040-2982
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/s004029821900113x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/392195
dc.description.abstractThe idea and meaning of ‘freedom’ in free improvisation has largely been determined by a masculine subject position. This paper proposes a thinking of free improvisation from a feminist perspective, drawing upon the writings of Donna Haraway, Sara Ahmed and Anna Löwenhaupt Tsing, and on our own practices as improvising musicians. Reflecting on our own experiences in music and life, we ask: What does it mean to be a feminist free improviser? What inspires us to seek freedom through our improvisation practices? Can thinking improvisation through the lens of feminist theory inform our improvisational practices? We seek to think improvisation from a collective, inclusive origin. We posit that improvising is always, as Donna Haraway has suggested, ‘making-with’: creating, moment-to-moment, requiring interaction with the environment and its inhabitants. Free improvisation is not free if its practice is delimited by an exclusive world view. ‘Feministing’ free improvisation can challenge assumptions that undermine free improvisation's claim to freedom.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom10
dc.relation.ispartofpageto20
dc.relation.ispartofissue292
dc.relation.ispartofjournalTempo
dc.relation.ispartofvolume74
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMusic
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3603
dc.titleFeministing free improvisation
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationReardon-Smith, H; Denson, L; Tomlinson, V, FEMINISTING FREE IMPROVISATION, Tempo, 2020, 74 (292), pp. 10-20
dc.date.updated2020-03-09T03:32:06Z
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorTomlinson, Vanessa


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