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.
