Table of Contents
Editorial
| “A Thread that Connects the Worlds”: Ovoid Logics and the Contradictory Lines of Force of Brazilian Improvisations | PDF HTML |
| Jason Stanyek |
Articles
| “Writing by Ear”: Clarice Lispector, Machado de Assis, and Guimarães Rosa and the Mimesis of Improvisation | PDF HTML |
| Marília Librandi Rocha |
| In Praise of Improvisation in Brazilian Soccer: Modernism, Popular Music, and a Brasilidade of Sports | PDF HTML |
| Bernardo Borges Buarque de Hollanda |
| "Na Cadencia Bonita do Samba": Accomplishing Suingue in Toronto | PDF HTML |
| Natasha Pravaz |
Interviews
| Ambivalence, Paradox and the Poison-Remedy of Brazilian Improvisation: A Conversation with José Miguel Wisnik | PDF HTML |
| Micaela Kramer |
Notes and Opinions
| Improvisations of a Tropical Cartesianism | PDF HTML |
| Fred Coelho |
| Improvisation in the Jeitinho Brasileiro | PDF HTML |
| Fernanda Carlos Borges |
| Urban Improvisations: The Profanatory Tactics of Spectacularized Spaces | PDF HTML |
| Paola Berenstein Jacques |
| Dancing Samba in Tight Places | PDF HTML |
| Barbara Browning |
| Improvisation and Staging in Documentary Films | PDF HTML |
| Fernão Pessoa Ramos |
| Improvisation in the Brazilian Theater: Inventing Tradition | PDF HTML |
| Silvana Garcia |
| Pablo Fagundes and the Instrumental Music of Brasília | PDF HTML |
| Bryan McCann |
| Soccer, Improvisation, Clichés: Brazilianness in Dispute | PDF HTML |
| Alexandre Fernandez Vaz |
In Memoriam
| Pushing at Boundaries: The Path of a Brazilian Instrumentalist | PDF HTML |
| Cliff Korman |
Book/Media Reviews
| Na ponta do verso: poesia de improviso no Brasil (2008) Edited by Alexandre Pimentel and Joana Corrêa | PDF HTML |
| Charles A. Perrone |
| Versificando (2009) Directed by Pedro Caldas and Produced by 13 Produções | PDF HTML |
| Daniel Sharp |
News and Announcements
| Call for Papers: General Topics Issue | PDF HTML |
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en
improvisation is generously supported by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (through both its Major
Collaborative Research Initiatives
and Aid to Scholarly Journals programs) and by the University of Guelph
Library.
ISSN: 1712-0624
ISSN: 1712-0624