Repertoires are learned, clustered, and improvisational but finite

Evidence

Performances clump into repertoires of claim-making routines that apply to the same claimant-object pairs: bosses and workers, peasants and landlords, rival nationalist factions, and many more. The theatrical metaphor calls attention to the clustered, learned, yet improvisational character of people’s interactions as they make and receive each other’s claims. Claim-making usually more resembles jazz and commedia dell’arte than the ritual reading of scripture. Like a jazz trio or an improvisatory theater group, people who participate in contentious politics normally can play several pieces, but not an infinity (Sawyer 2001). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 234

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise definition of repertoires as clustered learned improvisational performances tied to specific claimant-object pairs.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 234
• XREF: connects to: Repertoire clustering stems from daily organization, contention history, and regime operations — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 270; City dwellers read identities and perform behavior from learned repertoires — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 642; Repertoires are toolkits whose efficacy depends on match with tasks and users — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 350 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Repertoire clustering stems from daily organization, contention history, and regime operations #expands (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 270
• Repertoires of contention are defined by a flexibility continuum from nonexistent to rigid #qualifies (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 258
• Human improvisation is regulated by historically situated conditions #corroborates (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2147
• City dwellers read identities and perform behavior from learned repertoires #expands (0.80) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 642
• Repertoires are toolkits whose efficacy depends on match with tasks and users #expands (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 350
• Repertoire change happens through continuous modulation, not sharp breaks. #complicates (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 352
• Homeric epithets form a metrical system built for oral improvisation #exemplifies (0.80) — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 33