Children's Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation: A Study of the 'Improbasen' Learning Centre

ISBN-13: 9781138322974 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 190 str.

Guro Gravem Johansen

Opis

Music teachers, students and scholars within music education as well as jazz research will benefit from the perspectives presented in the book, which shows how children systematically acquire tools for improvisation and shared codes for interplay.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Making the case for Improbasen;  2. Researching Improbasen;  3. A fungus system: Roles and rules in Improbasen;  4. ‘Jazz is like slow carbs’: Children’s perspectives on learning jazz and improvisation;  5. The subject matter: Explicit teaching and learning;  6. The rhythmic scaffold: Implicit teaching and learning;  7. ‘Then we can play together’: inter-play, inter-nations;  8. Creative music pedagogy: Authenticity and childhood;  9. Children, jazz, and learning to improvise

O autorze

Guro Gravem Johansen is a jazz singer and Associate Professor of Music Education at the Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo, Norway) and researches instrumental practising and the teaching and learning of jazz and improvisation.