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  Cutting Up: Keeping Time's Ensemblic Humor

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  April 03, 2025

  immediately and swiftly begin the dialogue again in the same way as the quick, “but you’re still gonna do it.” ... necessarily involves sharing. Its success relies on a positive and prosocial affect—at least within the ... line at the beginning of the film, the jazz ensemble’s humor is as fugitive as their practice. Humor ...
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  Uncertainty is the Point

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  Anna Winter MFA

  March 26, 2026

  you what it needs to become [Slide 3]. Failure is inevitable and generative. Clay begins to take shape ... from the beginning where every step is meant to reduce uncertainty. But uncertainty might be the ... predicted in advance. For Production Students: You do not have to begin with a script if that’s not how you ...
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  Swing's Fabulation: Keeping Time

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  April 02, 2025

  home, they dropped Tapscott off at his music teacher’s home to begin working. We know that Tapscott, as ... means we can begin finding our swing, our improvisation, our ensemble.  [1]  In the film, it is left ...
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  Intuition and Education: The Catch 22 of Improv

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  Al Natanagara Freelance

  September 15, 2015

  guitar,—when I’m improvising over changes, where does the studied music end and the intuitive music begin?  Is ...
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  Suspension, Revisited

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  Alessandra Raengo Georgia State University

  October 14, 2016

  white footage, it is an homage to Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1977). It begins with the roar of ...
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  The Music Film as Argument

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  James Tobias University of California, Riverside

  April 29, 2020

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  1983 Sans Soleil in order to re-write the phrase “at least they will see the black” so that “the black” ...
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  Holding Blackness in Suspension: A Study

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  Lauren Cramer Pace University

  October 10, 2016

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  Holding Blackness in Suspension: A Study liquid blackness Kahlil Joseph flying lotus Curator's Note This past weekend liquid blackness hosted a symposium, “Holding Blackness in Suspension: The Films of Kahlil Joseph” at Georgia State University that ...