Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation : A Study of the ‘Improbasen’ Learning Centre (Paperback)

1.Introduction: Making the case for Improbasen; 2.Researching Improbasen; 3.A fungus system: Roles and rules in Improbasen; 4.‘Jazz is like slow carbs’: Children’s perspectives on learning jazz and improvisation; 5.The subject matter: Explicit teaching and learning; 6.The rhythmic scaffold: Implicit teaching and learning; 7.‘Then we can play together’: inter-play, inter-nations; 8.Creative music pedagogy: Authenticity and childhood; 9.Children, jazz, and learning to improvise