The Fierce Urgency of Now

Acknowledgments vii Prelude. "The Fierce Urgency of Now" Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation xi Introduction. Dissolving Dogma: Improvisation, Rights, and Difference 1 1. Sounding Truth to Power: Improvisation, Black Mobility, and Resources for Hope 33 2. Improvisation and Encounter: Rights in the Key of Rifference 57 3. Improvising Community: Rights and Improvisation as Encounter Narratives 99 4. Improvisation, Social Movements, and Rights in New Orleans 141 5. Art to Find the Pulse of the People: We Know This Place 171 6. "The Fierce Urgency of Now": Improvisation, Social Practice, and Togetherness-in-Difference 189 Coda 231 Notes 245 Works Cited 263 Index 281