By 2014, ICASP will have published five co-authored book projects based on our findings

Improvisation, Human Rights, and the Politics of Hope (Ajay Heble, Daniel Fischlin, George Lipsitz)

Improvisation and Pedagogy (George Lewis, Ajay Heble, and Jesse Stewart)

Sounding the Body: Improvisation and Performance (Ellen Waterman and Gillian Siddall)

Improvisation, Text, and Other Media (Frédérique Arroyas and Kevin McNeilly)

Improvisation and Social Aesthetics (Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and William Straw).

Wesleyan University Press announced in August 2007 that it will publish the five books to be produced by the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice research program as a sub-series of its distinguished Music/Culture series.

Improvisation is arguably the most widespread musical practice in the world and the least understood. “We are excited to publish the results of this groundbreaking research collaboration,” said Suzanna Tamminen, director of Wesleyan University Press. “One of our goals is to acquire and publish scholarly and broadly intellectual works that make significant contributions to new and cross-disciplinary fields of inquiry or expression.”

“It is a tremendous incentive for our researchers to know that a publishing contract with such a prestigious press exists from the outset of the project,” says Dr. Daniel Fischlin, the Series general editor for the project who negotiated the contract. “We appreciate the confidence that Wesleyan has demonstrated in the validity and value of our research.”

In addition, a new ICASP-related book project, People Get Ready": The Future of Jazz is Now!, co-edited by Ajay Heble and Rob Wallace, has been contracted by Duke University Press. The anticipated publication date is Spring 2011.