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January 31, 2011
Time:Noon-2 p.m.
Description:UCLA anthropologist Alessandro Duranti presents "Improvisation: Degrees of Creativity and Social Control Across Cultural Contexts." Building on data collected during a course on jazz aesthetics taught with jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell, as well as extensive participant-observations and video recordings of contexts in which musical or verbal improvisation is practiced and sometimes discussed, Duranti identifies a number of universal dimensions of improvisation and demonstrates that improvisation is both ubiquitous and regulated by culture and context-specific expectations. Duranti is professor of anthropology and dean of social science at UCLA.
Location:Student Activity Center 5.118
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Contact:Sofian Merabet | 512-471-0057
Sponsor:Department of Anthropology
Admission:Free
Categories:Colloquium, Everyone, Lecture/talk, Seminar
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