Full Description
This book presents the recent positions, theories, and methods of artistic research in jazz, inviting readers to critically engage in and establish a sustained discourse regarding theoretical, methodological, and analytic perspectives.
A panel of eleven international contributors presents an in-depth discourse on shared and specific approaches to artistic research in jazz, aiming at an understanding of the specificity of current practices, both improvisational and composed. The topics addressed throughout consider the cultural, institutional, epistemological, philosophical, ethical, and practical aspects of the discipline, as well as the influence of race, gender, and politics. The book is structured in three parts: first, on topics related to improvisation, theory and history; second, on institutional and pedagogical positions; and third, on methodical approaches in four specific research projects conducted by the authors.
In thinking outside established theoretical frameworks, this book invites further exploration and participation, and encourages practitioners, scholars, students, and teachers at all academic levels to shape the future of artistic research collectively. It will be of interest to students in jazz and popular music studies, performance studies, improvisation studies, music philosophy, music aesthetics, and Western art music research.
Contents
Artistic Research in Jazz: An Introduction
Michael Kahr
Part I: Improvisation, Theory, and History
1. Improvising Artistic Research
Marcel Cobussen
2. Improvising Touch: Musical Improvisation Considered as a Tactile Practice
Vincent Meelberg
3. Mapping Jazz's Affect: Implications for Music Theory and Analysis
Chris Stover
4. Artistic Research in Jazz: Historical Contexts
Michael Kahr
Part II: Institutional and Pedagogical Considerations
5. Wordplay: Negotiating the Conservatory 'Culture Clash'
Petter Frost Fadnes
6. The Lessons of Jazz: What We Teach When We Teach Jazz in College
Tracy McMullen
7. It Don't Mean a Thing Without My Web Fan Base Thing: A Dance of Cultural Relevancy in Jazz Education Culture Today
William C. Banfield
Part III: Specific Projects
8. Silent Groove, Frames and Applied Improvisation in Miles Davis' "Shhh/Peaceful" and austraLYSIS' "Silent Waves": Practice-led Research Beckons to Research-led Practice
Roger T. Dean
9. Analysis and Observations of Pre-learnt and Idiosyncratic Elements in Improvisation: A Methodology for Artistic Research in Jazz
Robert L. Burke
10. Articulating Musical Practice and Research: Notes on a South African Recording Project
Marc Duby
11. Embodied Hope: An Empathically Creative Approach to Contemporary Jazz
Andrew Bain
