Black2008
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Black2008 |
| Author(s) | Steven P. Black |
| Title | Creativity and Learning Jazz: The Practice of “Listening” |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Music, Music pedagogy, Jazz, Listening, Creativity, Linguistic Anthropology |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Mind, Culture & Activity |
| Volume | 15 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 279-295 |
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| DOI | 10.1080/10749030802391039 |
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Abstract
This article is about interaction, culture, and creativity. The ethnographic setting is a set of jazz performance classes at a California university. Although I write about jazz music, the reader need not have a background in studying or performing jazz (or music in general) to understand this article. In the title of the article, the term “practice” refers to (1) “listening” as a culturally specific communicative practice, and (2) the practice (a.k.a. rehearsal) of that culturally specific version of “listening”. I document and analyze how jazz instructors communicate with students about group interplay during musical performance. Extrapolating from this focus, I suggest some ways that contemporary linguistic anthropology can contribute to theories of creativity, focusing on the role that cultural norms of interaction defined by a particular activity play in constraining or shaping creative processes.
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