https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Rules-of-Improvisation https://booksandideas.net/The-Rules-of-Improvisation 2016-03-29T07:00:00Z text/html en Pierre Saint-Germier music freedom aesthetics jazz Florence Gould Foundation <p>Starting from the experimentations of three European ensembles playing improvised music at the turn of the 1970s, Matthieu Saladin defines an aesthetics of free improvisation, whose genuine political dimension he brings to light.</p> https://booksandideas.net/In-Praise-of-Impurity https://booksandideas.net/In-Praise-of-Impurity 2016-03-07T08:00:00Z text/html en Frédéric Sylvanise United States of America music Black culture jazz Florence Gould Foundation <p>A book on the writings of author and trumpet player Ralph Ellison about jazz music offers an extensive and thought-provoking reflection on Ellison's theory of the condition of African Americans.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Social-Life-as-Improvisation https://booksandideas.net/Social-Life-as-Improvisation 2011-01-31T09:59:35Z text/html en Pauline Peretz & Olivier Pilmis & Nadège Vezinat Society art norms drug deviance jazz Text Interviews <p>American sociologist Howard Becker stands out for his rejection of theory and his attachment to ethnographical observation of worlds in which he is himself an actor. One of his key lessons to sociologists is that they should ask “how” rather than “why”.</p>