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School for Cool

Eitan Y. Wilf
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      Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in clubs, and will die-so some fear-at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their careers, in one of the many academic programs that now offer jazz degrees. School for Cool is their story. Going inside the halls of two of the most prestigious jazz schools around-at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and the New School in New York - Eitan Y. Wilf tackles a formidable question at the heart of jazz today: can creativity survive institutionalization? Few art forms epitomize the anti-institutional image more than jazz, but it's precisely at the academy that jazz is now flourishing. This shift has introduced numerous challenges and contradictions to the music's practitioners. Solos are transcribed, technique is standardized, and the whole endeavor is plastered with the label "high art" - a far cry from its freewheeling days.Wilf shows how students, educators, and administrators have attempted to meet these challenges with an inventive spirit and a robust drive to preserve - and foster - what they consider to be jazz's central attributes: its charisma and unexpectedness. He also highlights the unintended consequences of their efforts to do so. Ultimately he argues that the gap between creative practice and institutionalized schooling, although real, is often the product of our efforts to close it.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Eitan Y. Wilf EAN: 9780226125053 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 567 g HEIGHT: 24 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-05-05 CITY: GENRE: EDUCATION / Higher, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 15 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Jazz, Popular music, Higher education, tertiary education

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      Eitan Y. Wilf is assistant professor of anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
      Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in clubs, and will die-so some fear-at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their careers, in one of the many academic programs that now offer jazz degrees. School for Cool is their story. Going inside the halls of two of the most prestigious jazz schools around-at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and the New School in New York - Eitan Y. Wilf tackles a formidable question at the heart of jazz today: can creativity survive institutionalization? Few art forms epitomize the anti-institutional image more than jazz, but it's precisely at the academy that jazz is now flourishing. This shift has introduced numerous challenges and contradictions to the music's practitioners. Solos are transcribed, technique is standardized, and the whole endeavor is plastered with the label "high art" - a far cry from its freewheeling days.Wilf shows how students, educators, and administrators have attempted to meet these challenges with an inventive spirit and a robust drive to preserve - and foster - what they consider to be jazz's central attributes: its charisma and unexpectedness. He also highlights the unintended consequences of their efforts to do so. Ultimately he argues that the gap between creative practice and institutionalized schooling, although real, is often the product of our efforts to close it.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Eitan Y. Wilf EAN: 9780226125053 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 567 g HEIGHT: 24 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-05-05 CITY: GENRE: EDUCATION / Higher, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 15 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      United States of America, USA, Jazz, Popular music, Higher education, tertiary education

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      Eitan Y. Wilf is assistant professor of anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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