“The Revolution Will Be Improvised is an extremely valuable project. Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder looks at cultural institutions, the Free Southern Theater and Teatro Campesino, that have received some, though not enough, scholarly attention in new ways and at other important institutions, Liberty House and Southern Media, that have had very little written about them. This book makes important contributions to performance studies, avant-garde studies, and Black and Chicanx studies.”
–—James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst
— James Smethurst
“Original, ambitious, and sophisticated, Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder crafts a careful analysis of various cultural artifacts of the Civil Rights Movement as the products of a jazz aesthetic, created through improvisation and geared toward fostering new pathways of intimacy among artists, activists, and minoritized/marginalized populations within the Civil Rights Movement.”
—Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University
— Jonathan Shandell