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Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is among the first books to examine music studies reform through the lens of African American music, as well as the emergent field of consciousness studies. It is inspired by conversations on race and a rich body of literature on the place of black music in American culture.
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Introduction
Part I: JAZZ AND THE CREATIVITY TURN
Chapter 1: Creativity as New Organizing Principle
Chapter 2: Multiculturalism, Transculturalism, and Race
Chapter 3: Music School for a Transcultural Age
Chapter 4: Conversations with Conservatives
Part II: JAZZ AND THE INTEGRAL REVOLUTION
Chapter 5: What Is Consciousness? A Jazz-inspired Integral Perspective
Chapter 6: What Is Improvisation? An Integral, Consciousness-based Perspective
Chapter 7: Jazz And The Integral Revolution
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Ed Sarath is professor of music at the University of Michigan, director of the U-M Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies, and is active worldwide as a performer, composer, recording artist, and scholar. He is founder and president of the International Society for Improvised Music and is lead author of the widely read CMS Manifesto, which appears in the coauthored book Redesigning Music Studies in an Age of Change.
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Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is among the first books to examine music studies reform through the lens of African American music, as well as the emergent field of consciousness studies. It is inspired by conversations on race and a rich body of literature on the place of black music in American culture.
