TY - T1 - Joint improvisation as interaction ritual SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/336501 T3 - Routledge Research in Aesthetics A1 - Salmela, Mikko A2 - Ravn, Susanne; Høffding, Simon; McGuirk, James PB - Routledge Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Improvised joint action feels good, sometimes even great, as the participants experience highly rewarding “group flows”. In this chapter, I analyze the emergence of the affective phenomenology of improvised jazz and theater with the sociological interaction ritual theory of Randall Collins, enriched with phenomenological and enactivist theories on human sociality. I first distinguish three main kinds of affective experiences in joint improvisation: positive feelings about the activity itself; fe... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 611 Philosophy; joint improvisation; group flow; interaction ritual theory; enactivism; phenomenology N1 - PP - ER -