Jamming the classroom : musical improvisation and pedagogical practice / Ajay Heble and Jesse Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heble, Ajay, 1961-

Contributor:

Stewart, Jesse.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Music and social justice.

Music and social justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation (Music).

Music--Instruction and study.

Music.

Music--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Summary:

Drawing on original interviews with improvising musicians, on critical pedagogy and cultural studies, and on the authors' personal histories with improvised music as a form of activism, community-based pedagogy, Jamming the Classroom examines how the teaching and learning of improvisational musical practices can be understood as vital and publicly resonant acts that generate new forms of knowledge, new understandings of identity and community, and new imaginative possibilities. The book takes its cue not just from the learning in conventional classrooms and credentialing institutions but also from the work that happens in and through broader communities of practice. Heble and Stewart ask how the improvisational practices of artists and the internal educational endeavors within community groups model-and enact-new forms of community-making and critical thinking, as well as what it means to theorize the pedagogy of improvised music in relation to public programs of action, debate, and critical practice and the context of material practices and struggles for institutional authority.

Contents:

Introduction : the many classrooms of improvisations

Solo dialogics : autodidactic methods of learning to improvise

Hearing what the other has to play : co-learning through musical improvisation

Music festivals as alternative pedagogical institutions

Improv goes to school : musical improvisation and the academy

A force that's active in the world : community-oriented pedagogies of improvisation

Coda : performance as pedagogy.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-158) and index.

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ISBN:

9780472903757

0472903756