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The Culture of Jazz Aesthetics Anthropology 148a: Language and the Culture of Art Instructors: Profs. Kenny Burrell and Alessandro Duranti Sawyer, R. K. Editor. 1997. Creativity in Performance. Greenwich, CT: Ablex. Chapter 1 1. How would you argue against the idea that in conversation (or in improvisation more generally) “anything goes”? 2. What are the three rules of improvisation theater discussed by Sawyer? 3. What’s the "improvisation zone"? 4. What’s indexicality? What’s an example of indexical speech? 5. What was K. Kuiper’s hypothesis about formulaic speech? (Think of connection with music performance, e.g. slow vs. fast tune, a few chord changes vs. lots of chord changes) 6. What’s a lick? How does it connect to speech? 7. How did the Commedia dell’arte work? Why didn’t they use scripts? 8. How are the limitations of the printed word to represent talk similar to the limitation of musical notation to represent jazz? (if you’re not a musician, you’ll need help for this) 9. What does "emergent" mean? Give examples. Chapter 2 1. What is the fourth wall? 2. What’s meta-talk and when is it used? 3. What does Sawyer say about turn-taking? Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7
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