Books written by Ajay Heble
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Sound Check: The Jazz Photography of Thomas King
Sound Check: The Jazz Photography of Thomas King
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People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!
Jazz musicians, scholars, and journalists emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and 1970s has continued to animate the avant-garde, Free Jazz, fusion, and other forms of this lively, always-evolving music.
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People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!
Finally, time and space take another Sun Ra-ian shift by way of Buddhist philosophy and poststructural theory—and humor—in Tracy McMullen's “People, Don't Get Ready: Improvisation, Democracy, and Hope.” McMullen offers a critical ...
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Improvisation and Music Education: Beyond the Classroom
Sawyer, Pretend Play as Improvisation, xxv. 7. Corsaro, Friendship and Peer Culture. 8. Kartomi, “Musical Improvisations by Children at Play.” 9. Sawyer, Pretend Play as Improvisation. 10. Blacking, Venda Children's Songs. 11.
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The Improvisation Studies Reader: Spontaneous Acts
Berliner, P. (1994) Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ... Sawyer, R.K. (1997) Pretend Play as Improvisation: Conversation in the Preschool Classroom. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Sawyer.
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Improvisation and Music Education: Beyond the Classroom
Pedagogy, Policy and the Privatized City intersperses student writings about “dispossession and defiance” in New Orleans with pieces by distinguished scholars that connect the students' concerns to critiques of neoliberal privatization ...
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Improvisation and Music Education: Beyond the Classroom
This book offers new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy.
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New Contexts of Canadian Criticism
I concluded – perhaps too quickly – that some topics transcended the culture of Ontario . ... history in the age of Thompson and Hobsbawm , but I was not fooled by one book's title , Customs and Traditions of the Canadian Armed Forces .
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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz: Towards a Theory of Collaboration. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009. Print. McLeod, Katherine. “'Oui, let's scat': Listening to Multi-vocality in George Elliott Clarke's Jazz Opera Québécité.
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The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence
Munro's stories confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer reality, but also by bestowing upon the reader a stimulating wealth of possibilities taken from what we might call a potential or absent level of meaning.
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The Improvisation Studies Reader: Spontaneous Acts
By placing key theoretical and classic texts in conversation with cutting-edge research and artists’ statements, this book answers the urgent questions facing improvising artists and theorists in the mediatized Twenty-First Century.
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The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence
Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the fiction, but also on what might have happened.
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Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education
Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Classroom Action - Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education -- 1 Access Interventions: Experiments in Critical Community Engagement -- 2 The ...
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Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice
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 ...
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Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making
A fascinating journey into the world of rebel musicians, where music and politics unite.
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The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue
Scholars, composers and performers write about the art of jazz improvisation.
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People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!
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.
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Rebel Musics, Volume 2: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making
Daniel Fischlin is a leading Canadian humanities researcher who has written over twenty books.