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Experimentation in Improvised Jazz - Chasing Ideas

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Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, static definition. The worldwide trend for jazz to be marginalized by the mainstream music industry, as well as conservatoriums and schools of music, runs the risk of stifling the innovative and challenging aspects of its creativity. The authors argue that to remain relevant, jazz needs to be dynamic, proactively experimental, and consciously facilitate new ideas to be made accessible to an audience broader than the innovators themselves.¿Experimentation in Improvised Jazz explores key elements of experimental jazz music in order to discern ways in which the genre is developing.¿

The book begins with an overview of where, when and how new ideas in free and improvised jazz have been created and added to the canon, developing the genre beyond its initial roots. It moves on to consider how and why musicians create free and improvised jazz; the decisions they make while playing. What are they responding to? What are they depending on? What are they thinking? The authors analyse and synthesise the creation of free jazz by correlating the latest research to the reflections provided by some of the world's greatest jazz innovators for this project. Finally, the book examines how we respond to free and improvised jazz: artistically, critically and personally. Free jazz is, the book argues, an environment that develops through experimentation with new ideas.

List of contents

INTRO . ‘A LOT OF NOISE’ - A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO FREE JAZZ. SECTION 1 FREE JAZZ AS A SONIC CONSTRUCT. 1. SOUND, NOISE & MUSIC. 2. ENVIRONMENT & ACTION. 3. A JAZZ SENSIBILITY. 4. AUTHENTICITY IN FREE JAZZ. 5. THE MEANING OF KNOWLEDGE IN FREE JAZZ. 6. EXPLORATION & EXPERIMENTATION IN FREE JAZZ. SECTION 2 CREATING FREE JAZZ. 7. IDEATION. 8. AGENCY.9. FREE WILL, INDETERMINACY & CHOICE. 10. ANTICIPATION & INTENT. 11. FLOW. 12. EXPERTISE, EXPERIENCE & LEADERSHIP. SECTION 3 RESPONDING TO FREE JAZZ. 13. SELF -CRITICISM & SATISFACTION. 14. EXPERT CRITIQUE & APPRAISAL. 15. PUBLIC CRITIQUE & ACCLAIM. OUTRO

About the author

Andrys Onsman is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, Australia.

Robert Burke is an Associate Professor and Convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, Australia.

Summary

Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the 21st century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, static definition. The worldwide trend for jazz to be marginalized by the mainstream music industry, as well as conservatoriums and schools of music, runs the risk of stifling the innovative and challen

Product details

Authors Robert Burke, Burke Robert, Andrys Onsman, Andrys (University of Melbourne Onsman, Andrys Burke Onsman, Onsman Andrys
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.04.2021
 
EAN 9780367584672
ISBN 978-0-367-58467-2
No. of pages 192
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries

Jazz, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Popular Music

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