Title: Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society
Abstract:Musical Improvisation: Art, Education and Society Edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl Preface - Bruno Nettl Introduction - Gabriel Solis Part One: Society 1. Jazz as Political and Musical Practice...Musical Improvisation: Art, Education and Society Edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl Preface - Bruno Nettl Introduction - Gabriel Solis Part One: Society 1. Jazz as Political and Musical Practice - Ingrid Monson 2. John Cage and Improvisation: an Unresolved Relationship - Sabine M. Feisst 3. When Traditional Improvisation is Prohibited: Contemporary Ukrainian Funeral Laments and Burial Practices - Natalie Kononenko 4. The Juncture between Creation and Recreation among Indonesian Reciters of the Qur'an - Anne K. Rasmussen 5. Genius, Improvisation, and the Narrative of Jazz History - Gabriel Solis 6. Formula, Variation and Improvisation in Participatory Music - Thomas Turino Part Two: Education 7. Learning to Improvise Music, Improvising to Learn Music - Patricia Shehan Campbell 8. Improvising Mozart - Robert Levin 9. Keyboard Improvisation in the Baroque Period - Charlotte Mattax Moersch 10. Beyond the Improvisation Class: Learning to Improvise in a University Jazz Studies Program - John P. Murphy 11. On Learning the Radif and Improvisation in Iran - Bruno Nettl 12. Hindustani Sitar and Jazz Guitar Music: A Foray into Comparative Improvology - Stephen Slawek 13. Music Improvisation in the Modern Dance Class - John Toenjes Part Three: Creation 14. Representations of Music-Making - Stephen Blum 15. Improvisation and Related Terms in Middle-Period Jazz - Lawrence Gushee 16. Opening the Museum Window: Improvisation and its Inscribed Values in Canonic Works by Schumann and Chopin - Robert S. Hatten 17. Improvisation in Beethoven's Creative Process - William Kinderman 18. Why Do They Improvise? Reflections on Meaning and Experience - A. Jihad Racy 19. Preluding at the Piano - Nicholas Temperley Contributor List IndexRead More