Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music: A Transdisciplinary Approach

Author:   Guro Gravem Johansen ,  Kari Holdhus ,  Christina Larsson ,  Una MacGlone
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Pages:   284
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
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Author:   Guro Gravem Johansen ,  Kari Holdhus ,  Christina Larsson ,  Una MacGlone
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780367728403


ISBN 10:   0367728400
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Chapter 1: Expanding the space for improvisation pedagogy in music: An introduction Section 1 - Distinctive features: empowering practices using improvisation Chapter 2: Teaching and Learning Improvisation: Culture-Specific Cases of a Cross-cultural Musical Act Chapter 3: A broadened approach towards musical improvisation as a foundation for very young children’s agency Chapter 4: Musical Improvisation for Japanese Children Today Chapter 5: A Deweyan take on improvisation as an experience: An example from a Swedish Year 4 music class. Chapter 6: The Play of Vocal Actors: exploring performative agency through opera improvisation. Interlude Chapter 7: When mixed-skill ensemble becomes social practice art. Section 2: Semantic possibilities: meaning making through improvisation Chapter 8: Young children’s talk about improvising: how conceptual tools and workshop roles are formed through musical improvisation workshop. Chapter 9: Improvisation in primary school settings: Discovering the play of music making Chapter 10: Teaching and Learning in Unfamiliar Territory. Chapter 11: Communication in Musical Improvisation Performances: Common Languages across Practices in Real-Time Arts. Interlude Chapter 12: Sonic Bothy: Improvisation, art, and equality. Section 3: Pedagogical consequences: plural teaching and learning in improvisation Chapter 13: Pedagogical improvisation: Musical Improvisation’s Little Sister? Chapter 14: A life of its own: teaching group improvisation through responsive choices. Chapter 15: Crossing the line: Collective improvisation and artistic ownership in The Norwegian Wind Ensemble. Chapter 16: Seven steps to heaven? An epistemological exploration of learning in jazz improvisation, from the perspective of expansive learning and horizontal development. Chapter 17: What have we learned about improvisation pedagogy?

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If I were to choose one type of musical experience that is the most misunderstood, under studied and poorly taught in western music education, it would be improvisation. This wonderful collection of chapters brings new scholarship and approaches to improvisation pedagogy that are badly needed. Especially meaningful is how the authors place the topic squarely in the center of socially-relevant discourse for today's music teaching and learning. A must-read for new and seasoned teachers and scholars. Peter Webster, Scholar in Residence, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California, USA. Emeritus Professor, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University, USA. This in many respects unique collection of essays has set itself the daring task to acknowledge, confront and research the conflicting trajectories of the life of improvisation in music education, asking important and sometimes uneasy questions. The editors of this collection have put together a diverse collection of essays that problematise how we think about improvisation, pedagogy and learning in diverse contexts. The diversity of perspectives adopted, the rigorous theorisation and the direct links to pedagogic practices that characterise this volume, render it a highly significant contribution to the emerging field of research in improvisation pedagogy. Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos, Associate Professor, Music Education, University of Thesally, Greece.


"""If I were to choose one type of musical experience that is the most misunderstood, under studied and poorly taught in ""western"" music education, it would be improvisation. This wonderful collection of chapters brings new scholarship and approaches to improvisation pedagogy that are badly needed. Especially meaningful is how the authors place the topic squarely in the center of socially-relevant discourse for today’s music teaching and learning. A must-read for new and seasoned teachers and scholars."" Peter Webster, Scholar in Residence, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California, USA. Emeritus Professor, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University, USA. ""If I were to choose one type of musical experience that is the most misunderstood, under studied and poorly taught in ""western"" music education, it would be improvisation. This wonderful collection of chapters brings new scholarship and approaches to improvisation pedagogy that are badly needed. Especially meaningful is how the authors place the topic squarely in the center of socially-relevant discourse for today’s music teaching and learning. A must-read for new and seasoned teachers and scholars."" Peter Webster, Scholar in Residence, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California, USA. Emeritus Professor, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University, USA. ""This in many respects unique collection of essays has set itself the daring task to acknowledge, confront and research the conflicting trajectories of the life of improvisation in music education, asking important and sometimes uneasy questions. The editors of this collection have put together a diverse collection of essays that problematise how we think about improvisation, pedagogy and learning in diverse contexts. The diversity of perspectives adopted, the rigorous theorisation and the direct links to pedagogic practices that characterise this volume, render it a highly significant contribution to the emerging field of research in improvisation pedagogy."" Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos, Associate Professor, Music Education, University of Thesally, Greece."


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Guro Gravem Johansen is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo, Norway) and holds a PhD on instrumental practising on improvisation. Johansen's research interests are instrumental practising and teaching and learning of jazz and improvisation. Kari Holdhus is Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her research interests are relational aesthetics, aesthetic learning processes, equity based music education practices. Christina Larsson is a classical singer and music teacher and currently a PhD candidate at The School of Music and Theatre at Örebro University in Sweden. Una MacGlone is a double bassist and founder member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. She lectures on free improvisation courses at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is completing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh.

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