Black Music Matters

Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvEd Sarath

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Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black music to ground American musicians in a core facet of their true cultural heritage. Ed Sarath applies an emergent consciousness-based worldview called Integral Theory to music studies while drawing upon overarching conversations on diversity and race and a rich body of literature on the seminal place of black music in American culture.Combining a visionary perspective with an activist tone, Sarath installs jazz and black music in as a foundation for a new paradigm of twenty-first-century musical training that will yield an unprecedented skill set for transcultural navigation among musicians. Sarath analyzes prevalent patterns in music studies change discourse, including an in-depth critique of multiculturalism, and proposes new curricular and organizational systems along with a new model of music inquiry called Integral Musicology. This jazz/black music paradigm further develops into a revolutionary catalyst for development of creativity and consciousness in education and society at large. Sarath’s work engages all those who share an interest in black-white race dynamics and its musical ramifications, spirituality and consciousness, and the promotion of creativity throughout all forms of intellectual and personal expression.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-15
Mått160 x 237 x 26 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538111703

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Ed Sarath is professor of music at the University of Michigan, director of the U-M Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies, and is active worldwide as a performer, composer, recording artist, and scholar. He is founder and president of the International Society for Improvised Music and is lead author of the widely read CMS Manifesto, which appears in the coauthored book Redesigning Music Studies in an Age of Change.

IntroductionPart I: JAZZ AND THE CREATIVITY TURNChapter 1: Creativity as New Organizing PrincipleChapter 2: Multiculturalism, Transculturalism, and Race Chapter 3: Music School for a Transcultural AgeChapter 4: Conversations with Conservatives Part II: JAZZ AND THE INTEGRAL REVOLUTIONChapter 5: What Is Consciousness? A Jazz-inspired Integral Perspective Chapter 6: What Is Improvisation? An Integral, Consciousness-based PerspectiveChapter 7: Jazz And The Integral Revolution

Jazz musician, scholar, and educator Ed Sarath (Univ. of Michigan) offers an engaging study of jazz music as inextricably linked to black heritage and race relations in the US; improvisation and creativity within the arts, primarily music; and, most significantly, the need to restructure music curricula in public schools. Sarath situates this restructuring with regard not only to jazz but also to other improvised, non-Western musics. The book has two main sections—"Jazz and the Creativity Turn" and "Jazz and the Consciousness Turn"—but, as Sarath points out, the “closely intertwined nature of creativity and consciousness is evident throughout” the book. In the introduction, he submits that “lower order” change in music education has, to date, amounted to adding “improvisation, composition, and engagement with diverse musical traditions” to the existing pedagogical framework. He asserts that a “higher order” vision should stem from rebuilding the entire “learning enterprise”—a restructuring that would examine issues including diversity, integrative learning, embodied musicianship, and entrepreneurship. Sarath also argues that learning models should focus more on creativity and less on students as “interpreters” who occasionally improvise and compose. The endnotes and bibliography are extensive.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.