Children's Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation: A Study of the "Improbasen" Learning Centre

[...]it gives voice to Norwegian perspectives on learning jazz in a discourse that is largely shaped by North Americans. [...]it presents an ethnographic approach to the study of jazz, but in contrast to well-known ethnomusicological studies like those of Berliner (1994) and Monson (1996), it doesn&...

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Published in:Jazz education in research and practice: a journal of the Jazz Education Network 2023-04, Vol.4 (1), p.172-177
Main Author: Johansen, Guro Gravem
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children & youth
Classical music
Education
Gender
Girls
Improvisation
Informal Education
Jazz
Learning
Learning Processes
Music Education
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Pedagogy
Schools
Stereotypes
Teaching
Teaching Methods
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Summary:[...]it gives voice to Norwegian perspectives on learning jazz in a discourse that is largely shaped by North Americans. [...]it presents an ethnographic approach to the study of jazz, but in contrast to well-known ethnomusicological studies like those of Berliner (1994) and Monson (1996), it doesn't focus on professional musicians but on children and their learning processes in jazz, addressing numerous essential pedagogical questions. The reviewed book sophisticatedly discusses possible answers to this very question, resulting from a detailed study of the teaching approach and the learning processes taking place at "Improbasen," a private jazz learning center for children in Oslo.1 Remarkable is the fact that jazz is not seen there as something for those who already have been trained in classical music or who have achieved whatever may be seen as instrumental basics elsewhere, but as core content for 11 children who have never played an instrument before" (p. 2). [...]he wants to avoid the impression ofjazz being old-fashioned: "I try desperately to hide the truth from the children, that this is old music.
ISSN:2639-7668
2639-7676