Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom av David (London College of Communication UK) Toop

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<b>Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.</b>In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop¿s interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, <i>Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970</i> introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, <i>Into the Maelstrom </i>investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s (Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a core value in the ear