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The role of folk, popular and improvisatory music in the lives of marginalised youth: rethinking music education for Canadian Inuit
David Lane, building on his own experiences as a pedagogue in the Inuit school system, explores...
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The Sound of Freedom: Fragmentation, Improvised Beings, and Canadian Multiculturalism
In this paper, improvised music and identity are looked at in relation to the movement of...
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The Temporal Aura of Improvisation: It's Time to Play Jazz!
This article uses Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological...
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Theorising Improvisation as a form of Critical Pedagogy in Ontario Public School Music Curricula
This paper uses critical pedagogy as a framework to critique existing music curricula in the...
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things that you hope a human being will be
TEXT: This comprehensive overview of Jane Bunnett's year as Improviser-In-Residence includes a...
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Third Stream Music
"Third stream" is a term coined to describe music produced through a blending of the...
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Thoughts on an Improvisation
On June 20, 2009, late afternoon, Julie Lassonde improvised with Joe Sorbara as part of Lex Non...
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Tripping On Wires: The Wireless Body: Who is Improvising?
The author has been tripping on wires onstage and offstage for half a century of technological...
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Truth in the Telling: Procedure, Testimony, and the Work of Improvisation in Legal Narrative
This article considers how trial procedures legitimate certain narratives, and certain ways of...
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Tunes from Brainville: Improvised Jazz and/as Utopia
In this piece, Shupak examines the correlations between political visions of utopia and the space...
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Twenty-Five in B&W: An Improviser’s Gallery
The Toronto-based photographer and jazz aficionado Barry Thomson has been shooting photos...
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Tzadik Records
Discussing the role of independent record labels in fostering new modes of social organization,...
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Upstream Association
A profile of Halifax's Upstream Association, which promotes 'pan-genre orchestral music...
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Utopias
VIDEO: Dr. Wong gives a lecture on the idea of a utopia in relation to transcultural understanding...
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Voicing Silence: The Legend of Buddy Bolden
This article focuses on the legendary Buddy Bolden, a putative godfather of jazz improvisation in...
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Voicing the Unforseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research
In a discussion of the ICASP project and the relationship between improvised music and literary...
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