ABSTRACT

Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music is a critical, research-based anthology exploring improvisation in music pedagogy. The book broadens the understanding of the potentials and possibilities for improvisation in a variety of music education contexts and stimulates the development of knowledge and reflection on improvisation.

The book critically examines the challenges, cultural values, aims and methods involved in improvisation pedagogy. Written by international contributors representing a variety of musical genres and research methodologies, it takes a transdisciplinary approach and outlines a way ahead for improvisation pedagogy and research, by providing a space for the exchange of knowledge and critique.

This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of arts education, music education, improvisation, music psychology, musicology, ethnomusicology, artistic research and community music. It will also appeal to music educators on all levels in the field of music education and music psychology.

part 1|2 pages

Distinctive features: Empowering practices using improvisation

chapter 2|16 pages

Teaching and learning improvisation

Culture-specific cases of a cross-cultural musical act

chapter 5|16 pages

A Deweyan take on improvisation as an experience

An example from a Swedish Year 4 music class

chapter 6|21 pages

The play of vocal actors

Exploring performative agency through opera improvisation

part |2 pages

Interlude

part 2|2 pages

Semantic possibilities: Meaning-making through improvisation

chapter 8|18 pages

Young children’s talk about improvising

How conceptual tools and workshop roles are formed through musical improvisation workshops

chapter 9|14 pages

Improvisation in primary school settings

Discovering the play of music making

chapter 11|17 pages

Communication in musical improvisation performances

Common languages across practices in real-time arts

part |2 pages

Interlude

chapter 12|10 pages

Sonic Bothy

Improvisation, art, and equality

part 3|2 pages

Pedagogical consequences: Plural teaching and learning in improvisation

chapter 13|16 pages

Pedagogical improvisation

Musical improvisation’s little sister?

chapter 14|18 pages

A life of its own

Teaching group improvisation through responsive choices

chapter 15|16 pages

Crossing the line

Collective improvisation and artistic ownership in The Norwegian Wind Ensemble

chapter 16|16 pages

Seven steps to heaven?

An epistemological exploration of learning in jazz improvisation, from the perspective of expansive learning and horizontal development