Daniel Fischlin is University Research Chair and Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and coauthor of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Co-creation, also published by Duke University Press.

Eric Porter is Professor of History and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coauthor of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition.

Acknowledgments ix
Playing for Keeps: An Introduction / Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter 1
1. manifesto / Matana Roberts 25
2. The Exhibition of Vandalizim: Improvising Healing, Politics, and Film in South Africa / Stephanie Vos 29
3. The Rigors of Afro/Canarian Jazz: Sounding Peripheral Vision with Severed Tongues / Mark Lomanno 55
4. "Opening Up a Space That Maybe Wouldn't Exist Otherwise" / Holding It Down in the Aftermath / Vijay Iyer in conversation with Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter 81
5. Experimental and Improvised Norths: The Sonic Geographies of Tanya Tagaq's Collaborations with Derek Charke and the Kronos Quartet / Kate Galloway 94
6. Nina Simone: CIVIL JAZZ! / Randy DuBurke 121
7. Free Improvised Music in Postwar Beirut: Differential Sounds, Intersectarian Collaborations, and Critical Collective Memory / Rana El Kadi 129
8. Street Concerts and Sexual Harassment in Post-Mubarak Egypt: Tarab as Affective Politics / Darci Sprengel 160
9. Improvisation, Grounded Humanity, and Witnessing in Palestine: An Interview with Al-Mada's Odeh Turjman and Reem Abdul Hadi / Daniel Fischlin 191
10. Silsulim (Improvised "Curls") in the Vocal Performance of Israeli Popular Music: Identity, Power, and Politics / Moshe Morad 250
11. Three Moments in K H`alu (Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar): Improvising as a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) Adaptive Strategy / Kevin Fellezs 275
12. From Prepeace to Postconflict: The Ethics of (Non) Listening and Cocreation in a Divided Society / Sara Ramshaw and Paul Stapleton 300
Contributors 325
Index 331