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PANEL: Justice, Culture, and Improvisation

Owen Chapman, Peter Johnston, Salman Rana

Published: 2009-06-20

VIDEO: Three panelists give presentations on a range of topics related to culture, justice, and improvisation.VIDEO: Three panelists give presentations on a range of topics related to culture, justice, and improvisation. Owen Chapman: “Sampling, Remix and Improvisation with Records, or ‘How the Turntable Taught Me to Play the Drum.’” Peter Johnston: “A Call for All Outlaws: Improvising Musicians And The Problems with Social Justice.” Salman Rana: “Freestyle in Hip Hop Culture.” TEXT: An abstract for each presentation.

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...partly because I know that’s the only way that we could solve a creative problem [using improvisation with children ranging in abilities] and what doesn’t work is trying to impose a template on the students who are not able to respond to that template.

– Pauline Oliveros (in working with Abilities First)