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Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society
Gabriel Solis
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Description for Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society
Paperback. Covers 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. Editor(s): Solis, Gabriel; Nettl, Bruno. Num Pages: 392 pages, 3 photographs; 6 tables; 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
"Cutting across traditional subject boundaries in music and cultural studies, this admirably comprehensive work adopts a welcome interdisciplinary ideal and makes a truly significant contribution to our knowledge of musical improvisation."--Robert Witmer, professor emeritus of music, York University
"Cutting across traditional subject boundaries in music and cultural studies, this admirably comprehensive work adopts a welcome interdisciplinary ideal and makes a truly significant contribution to our knowledge of musical improvisation."--Robert Witmer, professor emeritus of music, York University
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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
523g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252076541
SKU
V9780252076541
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About Gabriel Solis
Gabriel Solis is an associate professor of music and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making.Bruno Nettl is a professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and ... Read more
Reviews for Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society
"Valuable not only to researchers but also to performers, who will find their minds opened to how music different from their own can help them improvise better in their chosen genre. . . . Recommended."
Choice "A goldmine of information ... that is relevant to the amateur and scholar alike."
Ethnomusicology "An impressive and often sophisticated collection of essays. . . . ... Read more
Choice "A goldmine of information ... that is relevant to the amateur and scholar alike."
Ethnomusicology "An impressive and often sophisticated collection of essays. . . . ... Read more