Improvisation is crucial to a wide range of artistic activities – most prominently, perhaps, in music, but extending to other fields of experience such as literature and pedagogy. Yet it gets short shrift in both appreciation and analysis of art within education. This is in no small part due to our tendency to view the world in fixed categories and structures that belie our ability to generate creative, groundbreaking responses within and between those structures.
The Lived Experience of Improvisation draws on an analysis of interviews with highly regarded improvisers, including Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros and George Lewis. Simon Rose also exploits his own experience as a musician and teacher, making a compelling case for bringing back improvisation from the margins. He argues that improvisation is a pervasive aspect of being human and that it should be at the heart of our teaching and understanding of the world.
Price: £45.95
Publisher: Intellect Books
Imprint: Intellect Books
Publication Date:
03 January 2017
ISBN: 9781783206759
Format: eBook
BISACs:
MUSIC / General, Theory of music and musicology, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Theory of art
‘The Lived Experience of Improvisation: in music, learning and life’, makes an important contribution to this growing field of study.'
Preface
Part 1
Chapter 1: Human Improvisation
Chapter 2: The Development of Improvisation
Chapter 3: The Agency of Improvisation
Chapter 4: Improvisation and Knowledge
Part 2
Chapter 5: Recognizing Improvisation
Chapter 6: Process
Chapter 7: Learning
Chapter 8: Body
Chapter 9: Approaches
Chapter 10: The Capacity of Improvisation
Part 3
The Interviews
Roscoe Mitchell, Maggie Nicols, John Butcher, Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, Mick Beck, Tristan Honsinger, Alan Tomlinson, Sven-Ake Johansson, Bob Ostertag
