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School for cool : the academic jazz program and the paradox of institutionalized creativity
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- Creator
- Eitan Y. Wilf
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [ 2014]
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- xi, 268 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 022612522X, 9780226125220, 022612519X, 9781306540711, 9780226125053, 1306540712, 022612505X, 9780226125190
- OCLC
- ocn854541708, ocn877868188
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
- Introduction : the academic jazz program as a hybrid -- Context and histories : the search for cultural legitimacy and the reconfiguration of obsolete jazz scenes -- "Think-tank music" : public ambivalences and contradictions -- Charisma infusion : bringing the "street" back into the classroom -- Rituals of creativity : inhabiting the echoes of the past -- Transcribing creativity as creative transcribing : legitimizing theory and expertise -- "Now you have to think simple!" : improvisatory techniques of the improvising body -- The games students play : technologies of the listening self