... outstanding cases of improvised music ensembles with strongly developed social (and political) aesthetics: the Art Ensemble of Chicago, as it participated in the larger Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Feminist Improvising Group. mediation participation music...

... outstanding cases of improvised music ensembles with strongly developed social (and political) aesthetics: the Art Ensemble of Chicago, as it participated in the larger Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Feminist Improvising Group. music notation aesthetics recording...

... of improvised music ensembles with strongly developed social (and political) aesthetics: the Art Ensemble of Chicago, as it participated in the larger Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Feminist Improvising Group. mediation participation music contemporary art social...

... of improvised music ensembles with strongly developed social (and political) aesthetics: the Art Ensemble of Chicago, as it participated in the larger Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Feminist Improvising Group. music notation aesthetics recording performance ...

..., and the jet-black coloration of his monumental figurative ensembles, the analysis of Marshall’s self-positioning in relation to Western “history painting” situates him at a critical remove from the absolutes of Greenbergian modernism, since the intermedia nature of his practice cuts across abstraction...

... longed served as a point of passage to the Solovetsky Archipelago, site of the monumental Solovetsky Monastery of the Transfiguration. The chapter concludes with the wooden churches of the Kondopoga region and the magnificent original ensemble of two churches and bell tower on the Island of Kizhi...

... in the area provided a source of wealth during the medieval era, as did the strategic Onega River, which connected the region to the White Sea. This combination allowed the town to create a uniquely rich ensemble of churches, as well as a number of houses in the historic center of the town. Kargopol is also...

... examples of Vologda’s once rich ensemble of wooden houses. The Savior-Prilutsky Monastery on the Vologda River is an example of contemporary restoration and church revival. To the northeast along the Sukhona River Basin are numerous towns and villages that comprise one of the densest concentrations...

... This chapter situates the performance practices of the AACM in general, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago in particular, within the modernism-postmodernism dichotomy. It shows how the AACM foregrounds the elasticity and overlap of these “movements” and problematizes them. Drawing...

... Musical improvisation may be understood as the negotiation of subjectivities in the immediacy of the intercorporeal encounter. Safa is an intercultural Canadian musical ensemble that combines Iranian classical music, free jazz, and Latin percussion. The musicians are invested in maintaining...

... of an emergent women’s film culture in Korea, opens up gendered discourses of nation, genre, and auteurism that structure the reception of Korean cinema abroad. Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s female ensemble film Caramel (2007) countered associations of the Middle East with violence. Her Where Do We Go Now...

... the installation of Finnish paper mills in Uruguay. By exploring the racial, gendered, and class tensions involved in the rhizomatic, multiclass, multiethnic Asamblea, the chapter explores the ensemble of discourse that ranged from a former Maoist organizer blockading an international bridge with his tractor...

... and the Americas. The crisis gave rise to diverse positions, often expressed in rumors or anonymous pamphlets, responding to the power vacuum and hinging on the autonomy of local governments vis-à-vis the colonial authorities. The dialogue presents an ensemble of arguments to delegitimize the Spanish presence...

... encounter. Safa is an intercultural Canadian musical ensemble that combines Iranian classical music, free jazz, and Latin percussion. The musicians are invested in maintaining their individual authenticity, but they characterize their performances as highly unified. Through a close analysis of one...

..., evoking a quest for social justice that haunts contemporary life because it remains unfulfilled. With attention to painterly devices that interrupt the picture plane, and the jet-black coloration of his monumental figurative ensembles, the analysis of Marshall’s self-positioning in relation to Western...

... the “politics by other means” of the Asamblea Popular Ambiental de Gualeguaychú (Asamblea) to stop the installation of Finnish paper mills in Uruguay. By exploring the racial, gendered, and class tensions involved in the rhizomatic, multiclass, multiethnic Asamblea, the chapter explores the ensemble...

... Spain and the Americas. The crisis gave rise to diverse positions, often expressed in rumors or anonymous pamphlets, responding to the power vacuum and hinging on the autonomy of local governments vis-à-vis the colonial authorities. The dialogue presents an ensemble of arguments to delegitimize...