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This volume was the first published jazz teaching method. One of America's greatest musician-teachers, David Baker, shows how to develop jazz courses and jazz ensembles, with lesson plans, rehearsal techniques, practice suggestions, improvisational ideas, and ideas for school and private teachers and students.
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The present work reflects upon the role of creativity in education (understood as fundamental for the advent of the critical individual) and how to provide for it, relativizing the importance of the method as it is possible to recognize in its abuse negative consequences like the learning problems, reproductiveness and submission. Through bibliographical research, departing from the assumption that creativity is dependent on affectivity, the author sought to prove that both are compatible with the socialization of the freeing knowledge, and even potentialize this socialization, trying to understand individual and society without opposing one against the other. Through Cornelius Castoriadis' philosophical, psychoanalytical and sociological work the author tried to explain the affective relation with the other as essential for creation, to evidence how social control, interiorized as repression, blocks the creative flow of thinking (instituting submission) and how an education for creativity, substituting deliberation for repression, can liberate it. On the other hand, the study of informal education in the jazz community provided an analogy for this educational proposition, describing procedures conducive to creativity, while formal education in jazz obtained standardizing results that hadn't revealed themselves as encouraging for the development of this language. Therefore, the conclusions obtained follow towards the sense that the abuse of method or the understanding of education as a technique must be avoided, and the student should be instituted as the active agent of her own process of discovery, invention and creation.
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This book's title intrigued me greatly. I am interested in jazz, and the nature of improvisation in both music and comedy, so I felt that this book could have some valuable insights into the nature of creativity. After all, what could be more creative than the literal performing without a safety net that is the essential nature of jazz? The author's name was slightly familiar to me, as he is a musicologist in Brazil, and I had seen his work in the online BMG All Music Guide as an expert in Brazilian and South American music.
The book starts with a long and extremely complex overview of some psychological and sociological theories primarily attributed to a Brazilian theorist, Dr. Cornelius Castoradis. As nearly as I can determine, Castoradis claims that societies have an existence that is independent of their members. Essentially, society and its norms exist in a realm that does not depend on the physical or biological attributes of its members. Neder states:
"Not being a product of nature, reason, history, God, etc., society is instituted; and it is instituted by itself, it is self-instituted- self-created, in Castoriadis's terms. The anonymous collective thus creates the new, the radical novelty, that doesn't let itself to be predicted or explained from inexorable laws- each society, in its singularity, can't be explained by natural phenomena, functional needs, historic reasons, or symbolic organizations."
This goes on and on for a large number of pages in this vein. I do not consider myself fully qualified to critique the philosophical implications of Castoriadis's thesis, especially as it is presented second-hand here.
The major portion of the book deals with the informal initiation of young musicians into the world of jazz, and while more pertinent to the alleged subject matter of the book, it is still turgid and unreadable. Neder posits four stages of education within the jazz community: initiation, the initial exposure of the young player (or the not-yet-player) to the world of jazz; imitation, the mastery of necessary techniques and knowledge necessary for creating new music and new forms through the improvisational act; assimilation, the finding of the individual voice once the requisite abilities have been attained; and the final phase of innovation- the flowering of the player as a fully fledged musician, capable of creation on the fly, and exhibiting a unique personal style.
One point Neder is vehement about, and illustrates with a large number of quotes from famous musicians, is the concept of personal identification with the jazz form and the type of instrument the initiate has chosen. Most of the players quoted in the book indicate that they knew that trumpet, guitar, saxophone, whatever, was the instrument for them; no other would do, and they were voluntarily going to immerse themselves totally in their chosen ax.
In short, to play jazz, you must be prepared to live jazz, hear jazz, think jazz, and be (in Neder's view) completely devoted to your new credo. Somehow this reminds me of a kind of overwhelming religious conversion, in which the initiates are in cells, but instead of self-flagellation and prayer, they play minor key/strange interval scales all day.
The only real connection I can find in this work with education is the implicit need for passion; passion on the part of the educator that is then handed down to the student. In this book it is jazz and musicianship that is the sine qua non for society; in our experience as educators the necessary tools are a little more varied.
Very unfortunately, Mr. Neder's book is an unreadable and incomprehensible mess. I think the readability problems relate to an unfortunate attempt at translation from Portuguese, possibly by computer, but this book is regretfully turgid and generally unhelpful in presenting Neder's thesis. An example:
The traditional school teaching restricts the understanding of education to the cognitive dimension, failing to notice a universe occulted in the affective exchanges between the child and the significant adult which, not withstanding, has the strongest relevance in the educational context.
All in all, I cannot recommend this book as a statement on creativity for consumption by anyone but the philological masochist. There are occasional nuggets to be found here, but digging for them is, to put it mildly, painful in the extreme.
This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on February 1, 1993. The length of the article is 2312 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Jazz dance represents more than just high kicks and body turns. It is a reflection of contemporary life and dance educators can enhance jazz instruction by analyzing its history, movement and style and knowing the work of great jazz artists. This will enable students to appreciate jazz as a unique and rich art form, understand the movements and the rhythmic aspects of jazz music and enrich their knowledge regarding the masters of jazz art.
Citation Details Title: Jazz dance in the dance curriculum: what educators should know. (Pathways to Aesthetic Literacy: Revealing Culture in the Dance Curriculum) Author: Nora Ambrosio Publication:JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed) Date: February 1, 1993 Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Volume: v64 Issue: n2 Page: p41(4)
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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on May 1, 1998. The length of the article is 990 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Jazz dance has two distinct categories, namely, lyrical jazz dance and commercial jazz dance. Commercial jazz dance portrays the norms and beat of contemporary culture and is performed for movement and pleasure. Thus, it is more widely accepted and is ever-changing. Lyrical jazz dance is the more formal, structured and constant art form with its own unique idiom, technique and theory. It is performed on the concert stage and was initially termed modern jazz dance although the form was not an offshoot of modern dance. The lyrical jazz dance form is discussed.
Citation Details Title: Lyrical jazz dance defined. Author: Leslie D. Netting Publication:JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed) Date: May 1, 1998 Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Volume: v69 Issue: n5 Page: p7(2)
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Unraveling the cultural and intellectual landscape of 1920s America. Structures of the Jazz Age charts the twenties cultural landscape populated by critical intellectuals like H.L. Mencken and Irving Babbitt, and by major imaginative writers like Dos Passos, Cather and Dreiser. In an original and readable book, Chip Rhodes grants the truth of appearances to the clichs of the Jazz Age which have held the American imagination -- the lost generation of writers, the era of mass consumption and the silver screen -- whilst revealing their roots in a conservative ideology. Rhodes also looks beyond the mainstream to more marginal schools of thought, including progressive educational philosophy, the critique of mass culture, and the cult of primitivism exemplified in less canonized figures like Anzia Yezierska, Harry Leon Wilson and DuBose Heyward. He shows how these different strands were woven together in a way that helped to sustain Republican rule and an expanding economy, until the entire edifice came tumbling down in the stock market crash of 1929
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Sin-tillating! Chip Rhodes serves up his idle marxist speculations sensually, leaving the reader gasping for air and asking for more. When I got done reading this cultural studies texxxt, I was hot, bothered, sticky, and covered with hair clippings (because I had been rolling around naked on the floor of a barber shop). Whoomp- there it is!
Customer Review: Wham! Bam! Thank you, Structures of the Jazz Age!
Sin-tillating! Chip Rhodes serves up his idle marxist speculations sensually, leaving the reader gasping for air and asking for more. When I got done reading this cultural studies texxxt, I was hot, bothered, sticky, and covered with hair clippings (because I had been rolling around naked on the floor of a barber shop). Whoomp- there it is!
This digital document is an article from Black Issues in Higher Education, published by Cox, Matthews & Associates on February 10, 2005. The length of the article is 353 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: UCLA professor Kenny Burrell among seven to receive nation's highest jazz honor.(Noteworthy News)(University of California Los Angeles) Publication:Black Issues in Higher Education (Refereed) Date: February 10, 2005 Publisher: Cox, Matthews & Associates Volume: 21 Issue: 26 Page: 15(1)
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This digital document is an article from District Administration, published by Professional Media Group LLC on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 749 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: What sort of mature culture relies on Jessica Simpson to "save the music?".(GaryStager on Jazz Education)(Column) Author: Gary Stager Publication:District Administration (Magazine/Journal) Date: July 1, 2004 Publisher: Professional Media Group LLC Volume: 40 Issue: 7 Page: 55(1)
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