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School for Cool (Paperback)
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School for Cool (Paperback)
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Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will
die--so some fear--at the university. Facing dwindling commercial
demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz
musicians today learn their craft, and find their careers, in one
of the many academic programs that now offer jazz degrees. "School
for Cool" is their story. Going inside the halls of two of the most
prestigious jazz schools around--at Berklee College of Music in
Boston and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New
York--Eitan Y. Wilf tackles a formidable question at the heart of
jazz today: can creativity survive institutionalization?
Few art forms epitomize the anti-institutional image more than
jazz, but it's precisely at the academy where jazz is now
flourishing. This shift has introduced numerous challenges and
contradictions to the music's practitioners. Solos are transcribed,
technique is standardized, and the whole endeavor is plastered with
the label "high art"--a far cry from its freewheeling days. Wilf
shows how students, educators, and administrators have attempted to
meet these challenges with an inventive spirit and a robust drive
to preserve--and foster--what they consider to be jazz's central
attributes: its charisma and unexpectedness. He also highlights the
unintended consequences of their efforts to do so. Ultimately, he
argues, the gap between creative practice and institutionalized
schooling, although real, is often the product of our efforts to
close it.
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