In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: An Art Neglected in Scholarship	1
1	Recognizing Improvisation	27
2	Psychological Constraints on Improvisational Expertise and Communication	47
3	Do Javanese Gamelan Musicians Really Improvise?	69
4	Improvisation, Ecstasy, and Performance Dynamics in Arabic Music	95
5	Go On, Girl! Improvisation in African-American Girls' Singing Games	113
6	Improvisation in Latin American Dance Music: History and Style	127
7	Oh Freedom: George Russell, John Coltrane, and Modal Jazz	149
8	Improvisation and Group Interaction in Italian Lyrical Singing	169
9	Exploding the Belly: Improvisation in Cantonese Opera	199
10	Melodic Improvisation in Karnatak Music: The Manifestations of Raga	219
11	Setting the Stage: Clara Schumann's Preludes	237
12	A Sense of the Possible: Miles Davis and the Semiotics of Improvised Performance	261
13	The Improvisation of Louis Armstrong	291
14	Keeping It Going: Terms, Practices, and Processes of Improvisation in Hindustani Instrumental Music	335
15	Taqsim Nahawand Revisited: The Musicianship of Jihad Racy	369
	Contributors	395
	Index	399