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    Analyses of improvisational freedom must account for soci... — Carmelics
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    Analyses of improvisational freedom must account for social and historical constraints

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    • 1.Social and historical conditions shape the possibility of freedom
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    • 2.Improvisational freedom as traditionally conceived ignores these constraining conditions
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    • 1.Phenomenological accounts of improvisation (Merleau-Ponty, Sheets-Johnstone) locate freedom in embodied perception prior to social inscription.
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    • 2.Constraints internalized through habitus can constitute enabling conditions for expression, not merely limitations on a pre-social freedom.
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    • 1.Sartrean radical freedom holds that consciousness always transcends facticity, making situational constraints objects of freedom rather than its limits.
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    • 2.If social conditions wholly constituted improvisational possibility, genuine novelty and transgression of inherited forms would be conceptually incoherent.
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    Danielle Goldman (2010) provides a critical analysis of the idea of improvisational “freedom”, as represented in Carter’s improvisation type 2, above. She suggests that we examine social and historical constraints on the possibility of “freedom”, since such freedom cannot exist in oppressive conditions such as slavery where prohibitive social as well as physical barriers exist. Goldman thus suggests an alternative form of improvisation, one that is
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