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The Lived Experience of Improvisation

In Music, Learning and Life
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The Lived Experience of Improvisation explores the essential role of improvisation across diverse artistic fields, especially music, literature, and pedagogy. Simon Rose draws on interviews with prominent improvisers such as Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros, and George Lewis, combined with his own experience as a musician and educator. The book argues for recognising improvisation as a fundamental human practice that should be central to education and our understanding of creativity.
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This book is ideal for musicians, educators, students of music and arts, and anyone interested in the theory and practice of creativity and improvisation. It will appeal to those engaged in arts education and cultural studies seeking to deepen their understanding of improvisation beyond conventional structures.

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Improvisation is crucial to a wide range of artistic activities - most prominently, perhaps, in music, but extending to other fields of experience such as literature and pedagogy. Yet it gets short shrift in both appreciation and analysis of art within education. This is in no small part due to our tendency to view the world in fixed categories ...

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Improvisation is crucial to a wide range of artistic activities—most prominently, perhaps, in music, but extending to other fields of experience such as literature and pedagogy. Yet it gets short shrift in both appreciation and analysis of art within education. This is in no small part due to our tendency to view the world in fixed categories and structures that belie our ability to generate creative, groundbreaking responses within and between those structures.

The Lived Experience of Improvisation draws on an analysis of interviews with highly regarded improvisers, including Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros, and George Lewis. Simon Rose also exploits his own experience as a musician and teacher, making a compelling case for bringing back improvisation from the margins. He argues that improvisation is a pervasive aspect of being human and that it should be at the heart of our teaching and understanding of the world.

Series: Contemporary Music Making and Learning

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Praised as "an important contribution to this growing field of study" by Nick Sorensen of Bath Spa University, the book offers a "rich and rewarding" exploration of improvisation, according to Andy Hamilton at The Wire. It is noted as "a tremendous resource" suitable for institutional music courses, particularly at the post-secondary level, providing fresh, ethnomusicological perspectives that expand and revitalise traditional improvisation literature for both academic and general readers.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783206735

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 February 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 431g

Pages: 261

About the Author

Simon Rose is a musician, author and researcher from London, England based in Berlin, Germany. He performs on baritone and alto saxophones in numerous collaborations and as soloist. He also collaborates beyond music with dancers, visual artists, mixed media, built instruments, site specific performance and more. His research interest is in creative processes.
https://www.simonrose.org/

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