Artistic Research in Jazz

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>