What is it about?
What does it mean to engage in dialogue with others who hold different perspectives? How can we honor multiple perspectives while enacting our own agency, our individual and unique voice? This chapter explores what role visual arts and free improvisation can play in answering these questions. Using an Arts-Based Research approach, the author creates graphic scores with his students to ground abstract improvisation activities, resulting in a greater willingness to engage in difference and changed perspectives.
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Why is it important?
This chapter focuses on the intersection of Free Improvisation and visual art in the public music classroom. Expanding beyond the literature of jazz improvisation in education, this chapter explores how this specific music making activity can be used to expand perspectives and engage with/respond to dissonance and multiple perspectives.
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This chapter grew out of my doctoral dissertation, which considers a Free Improvisation Pedagogy as a way to promote engagement of difference and creativity of self through a group environment.
Nicholas Catino
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This page is a summary of: Graphic Scores, Free Improvisation, and Research, October 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004710245_019.
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