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PANEL: Improvisation, Text, and Media

Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2010

Published: 2011-07-27

Three panelists present papers on the theme Improvisation, Text, & Media. Nicholas Loess: "Cameras on Standby Indefinitely: The Body in Video"; Michael Mackenzie: "Jazz, Public Television and Cosmopolitanism"; Jaime Brenes Reyes: "Improvisation as a Writing Technique in Cortazar's Hopscotch, Or How Julio invites the Reader to Play Along"

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So one of the things that improvisation has come to mean in the context of highly technological performance is that improvisation is the last claim to the legitimate presence of a human in the performance of music.

– Bob Ostertag