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Author:   Ajay Heble ,  Mark Laver
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781138830165

ISBN 10:   113883016
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   07 March 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Improvisation and Music Education: Beyond the Classroom Ajay Heble and Mark Laver Section 1: Teaching Improvisation 1. On the Ethics of Teaching ""Jazz"" (and ""America’s Classical Music,"" and ""BAM,"" and ""Improvisational Music,"" and . . .) David Ake 2. Improvisation Pedagogy in Theory and Practice Jesse Stewart 3. Free Improvisation and Performance Anxiety in Musicians Kathryn Ladano 4. Analysis, Improvisation, and Openness Chris Stover 5. Embodied Action Frameworks: Teaching Multicultural Ear Training Howard Spring 6. From Jazz Pedagogy to Improvisation Pedagogy: Solving the Problem of Genre in Beginning Improvisation Training Gabriel Solis Section 2: Histories, Institutions, Practices 7. Time to Change the Curriculum: Revaluing Improvisation in Twenty-first Century Canada Parmela Attariwala 8. Back into the Classroom: Learning Music through Historical Improvisation Peter Schubert and Massimiliano Guido 9. Thoroughbass as Pedagogy in the Teaching of Improvisation in Undergraduate Music Theory Courses Vincent P. Benitez 10. Improvise Globally, Strategize Locally: Institutional Structures & Ethnomusicological Agency Scott Currie 11. Teaching the ‘Compleat Musician’: Contemporary Improvisation at New England Conservatory Tanya Kalmanovitch 12. Becoming Music: Building Castles with Sound William Parker Section 3: Improvisation and Community Engaged Pedagogy 13. The Music is the Pedagogy David Dove 14. Informed by Children: Awakening Improvisatory Impulses in University Students Matt Swanson and Patricia Shehan Campbell 15. ""Things that you hope a human being will be"": Jane Bunnett in Conversation with Ajay Heble Ajay Heble and Jane Bunnett 16. The Share: Improvisation and Community in the Neoliberal University Mark Laver 17. Control This! Digital Improvisation & Pedagogy Mark V. Campbell 18. Education for Liberation, Not Mainstream Socialization: The Improvisation Pedagogy of Students at the Center in New Orleans George Lipsitz"

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Ajay Heble is Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and Professor of English at the University of Guelph, Canada. Mark Laver is Assistant Professor of Music at Grinnell College, US.

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