Title School for cool : the academic jazz program and the paradox of institutionalized creativity / Eitan Y. Wilf.

Publication Info.	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
	©2014

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Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML3508 .W648 2014	Available

Description	xi, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	Berklee College of Music.
	Berklee College of Music.
	New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
	New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
	Jazz -- Instruction and study -- United States.
	Jazz -- Instruction and study.
	United States.
	Jazz musicians.
	Jazz musicians.
ISBN	9780226125053 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	022612505X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780226125190 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	022612519X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780226125220 (e-book)