Improvisation and Music Education

Beyond the Classroom

Ajay Heble (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada), Mark Laver

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English

Routledge
07 March 2016

Music; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: Music

Series: Routledge Studies in Music Education

This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading musicians, scholars, and teachers from around the world, the volume articulates how improvisation can breathe new life into old curricula; how it can help teachers and students to communicate more effectively; how it can break down damaging ideological boundaries between classrooms and communities; and how it can help students become more thoughtful, engaged, and activist global citizens. In the last two decades, a growing number of music educators, music education researchers, musicologists, cultural theorists, creative practitioners, and ethnomusicologists have suggested that a greater emphasis on improvisation in music performance, history, and theory classes offers enormous potential for pedagogical enrichment. This book will help educators realize that potential by exploring improvisation along a variety of trajectories. Essays offer readers both theoretical explorations of improvisation and music education from a wide array of vantage points, and practical explanations of how the theory can be implemented in real situations in communities and classrooms. It will therefore be of interest to teachers and students in numerous modes of pedagogy and fields of study, as well as students and faculty in the academic fields of music education, jazz studies, ethnomusicology, musicology, cultural studies, and popular culture studies.

Edited by: Ajay Heble (University of Guelph Ontario Canada), Mark Laver
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781138830165
ISBN 10: 113883016X
Series: Routledge Studies in Music Education
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 07 March 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.