School for cool
Subtitle: the academic jazz program and the paradox of institutionalized creativity
By: Eitan Y. Wilf
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780226125190; 9780226125053
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Instruction and study; Jazz; Jazz musicians; Music; New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music; Berklee College of Music; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The academic jazz program as a hybrid; title: Context and histories : the search for cultural legitimacy and the reconfiguration of obsolete jazz scenes; title: "Think-tank music" : public ambivalences and contradictions; title: Charisma infusion : bringing the "street" back into the classroom; title: Rituals of creativity : inhabiting the echoes of the past; title: Transcribing creativity as creative transcribing : legitimizing theory and expertise; title: "Now you have to think simple!" : improvisatory techniques of the improvising body; title: The games students play : technologies of the listening self.