JAZZ PAPERS: /Improv Games for One Player/IMPROVISATION ET RECHERCHE BASEE SUR L’ART

Jeffrey Agrell The University of Iowa, Music, Faculty Member

Improv Games for One Player "The author’s Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians (GIA Publ., Dec. 2009) is a wonderful and comprehensive resource, but the vast content does not fit comfortably into the average musician’s instrument case. This slender volume of nonjazz musical games for one player is utterly portable. It should fit in just about every case with enough room to transport a sheet of music paper, but there is plenty of content to enliven and enrich a player’s daily technical and musical practice for a long time. About half the content is drawn from the original big book, and half is drawn from new,...

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Nisha Sajnani Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty Member IMPROVISATION ET RECHERCHE BASEE SUR L’ART (translated by Valérie Decroix ) Les chercheurs s’appuyant sur des pratiques artistiques comme média de création et de représentation des connaissances, requièrent et font preuve même souvent d’aptitudes essentielles à l’improvisation, telles que l’ouverture à l’incertain, une initiation à la différence et une intelligence esthétique. Cet article examine la recherche basée sur l’art à travers le spectre de l’improvisation, dans le but de mettre en lumière les opportunités et les défis fondamentaux que recouvre cette nouvelle approche d’étude. View Paper

Cass Fisher University of South Florida, Religious Studies, Faculty Member "Review of Tamar Barzel, _New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene_" (AJSR, 40:1) View Paper

Fumi Okiji Royal Holloway, University of London, Classics and Philosophy, German, Post-Doc The indispensability and inadequacy of jazz records View Paper

Swathi Swaminathan University of Toronto, Psychology, Graduate Student Current emotion research in music psychology Music is universal, at least partly because it expresses emotion and regulates affect. Associations between music and emotion have been examined regularly by music psychologists. Here, we review recent findings in three areas: (i) the communication and perception of emotion in music, (ii) the emotional consequences of music listening, and (iii) predictors of music preferences. View Paper

Carleen S Hardin University Of Amsterdam, American Studies, Graduate Student

Jazz According to Simone de Beauvoir This briefly explores de Beauvoir's views on jazz music in her work America Day by Day.

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