Musical Improvisation Art, Education, and Society

A musical practice used for centuries the world over, improvisation too often has been dismissed as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious. Approaching musical improvisation from the fields of ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and music theory, the contributors to this volume delve into diverse topics such as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon. Contributors are Stephen Blum, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Sabine M. Feisst, Lawrence Gushee, Robert S. Hatten, William Kinderman, Natalie Kononenko, Robert Levin, Charlotte Mattax Moersch, Ingrid Monson, John P. Murphy, Bruno Nettl, A. Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Stephen Slawek, Gabriel Solis, Nicholas Temperley, John Toenjes, and Thomas Turino.

ISBN:	9780252076541
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Published date:	25 Jul 2009
DEWEY:	781.36
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xv, 357
Weight:	546g
Height:	228mm
Width:	154mm
Spine width:	23mm

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