The Condition of the Improviser (Moments and Monuments: Mission Impossible).
While oral cultures invest considerable amounts of mental energy in remembering stories to be told, the culture of our time is primarily visual, and what is not written or printed is hardly understood. Music becomes 'sacred', progressively detached from its perceivable elements-sounds and rhythms-an...
| Published in: | Contemporary Music Review Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 379 - 387 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2010
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