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  • Festival Activism

    by David A. McDonald, Jeremy Reed, Oladele Ayorinde, Filippo Bonini Baraldi, Louise Barrière, Eric Fillion, Jennie Gubner, Deonte L. Harris0, Steven Hatcher1, Ajay Heble2, Serene Huleileh3, Kimberly Marshall4, Ruthie Meadows5, Miguel Moniz6, James Nissen7, Andrew G. Snyder8 ...
    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    For decades, festivals have been important sites of inquiry for folklorists and ethnomusicologists alike as celebrations of culture. Moving beyond traditional discussions of staged culture and multiculturalism, however, this edited volume explores how festivals may be mobilized as strategic forms of direct action.Festival Activism is a diverse collection of case studies from scholars, performers, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Fierce Urgency of Now

    Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

    by Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz ...
    Series series Improvisation, community, and social practice
    The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Improvisation Studies Reader

    Spontaneous Acts

    Edited by Ajay Heble, Rebecca Caines ...
    Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry, becoming a cornerstone of both practical and theoretical approaches to performance.The Improvisation Studies Reader draws together the works of key artists and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Classroom Action

    Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education

    by Ajay Heble ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    Building on the concept of a “teaching community,” Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and theories they have learned and the broader community beyond campus. Utilizing a case study approach, the chapters in this volume are conceptually and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Landing on the Wrong Note

    Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

    by Ajay Heble ...
    An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • People Get Ready

    The Future of Jazz Is Now!

    Edited by Rob Wallace, Rob Wallace, Ajay Heble ...
    Series series Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
    In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Improvisation and Music Education

    Beyond the Classroom

    Edited by Ajay Heble, Mark Laver ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Music Education
    This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading musicians, scholars, and teachers from around the world, the volume articulates how improvisation can breathe new life into old curricula; how it can help teachers and students to communicate more effectively; how it can break down damaging ideological ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book ... Read more

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  • Participatory Culture in a Networked Era

    A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

    by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd ...
    In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation. Jenkins, Ito and boyd examine the ways in which our personal and professional lives are shaped by ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert

    by Peter Elsdon ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history. His The Köln Concert stands among the most important jazz recordings of the past four decades, not only because of the music on the record, but also because of the remarkable reception it has received from musicians and lay-listeners alike. Since the album's 1975 release, it has sold over three million copies ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Making Intangible Heritage

    El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from UNESCO

    by Valdimar Tr. Hafstein ...
    In Making Intangible Heritage, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein—folklorist and official delegate to UNESCO—tells the story of UNESCO's Intangible Heritage Convention. In the ethnographic tradition, Hafstein peers underneath the official account, revealing the context important for understanding UNESCO as an organization, the concept of intangible heritage, and the global impact of both. Looking beyond ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essential Techniques of Jazz and Contemporary Piano

    by Steve Lockwood ...
    Looking for that definitive text that covers improvisation in all its diversity with clarity and ease? Are you ready to put in the time and effort required to be a complete musician? Are you unable to afford huge tuitions for your education, but want the careful guidance that a private teacher with the right text can give you? Your search has ended!This book covers "Essential" materials for a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD