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Deconstructing Modal Jazz Piano Techniques: The Relation between Debussy's Piano Works and the Innovations of Post-Bop Pianists

Jazz Education in Research and Practice, 2022
:This study examines the relation between Claude Debussy's harmonic and melodic techniques and those of post-bop jazz pianists through the analysis of selected piano pieces and transcriptions of important recordings that helped establish new aesthetics ...
Sergio Pamies
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Collaborative learning experiences in the university jazz/creative music ensemble: Student perspectives on instructional communication

Psychology of Music, 2021
While the ensemble is a ubiquitous learning environment within jazz education, opportunities to learn through engagement in ensemble performances and industry-level recording opportunities are rare classroom environments tertiary jazz music institutions ...
L. D. de Bruin
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‘All that jazz’: the relationship between music festival visitors’ motives and behavioural intentions

Current Issues in Tourism, 2019
Martinette Kruger, Melville Saayman
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Apprenticing the jazz performer through ensemble collaboration: A qualitative enquiry

International Journal of Music Education, 2020
The one-to-one teacher–student relationship is a common learning configuration within jazz education. However, opportunities to learn through engagement in ensemble performances and industry-level recording opportunities with esteemed jazz performers are
Leon R De Bruin, Paul Williamson
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"Moldy Figs" and Modernists: Jazz at War (I942-I946)

Jazz Among the Discourses, 2020
inceptions sometime in the mid-nineteenth century. But, for a long while, this interchange was decidedly one-sided, as modernists eagerly appropriated materials and devices from a more passive mass culture, for the purposes of formal experimentation ...
B. Gendron
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Jazz, Jazz, Jazz

2022
This chapter surveys Buck and Bubbles’s career in the early 1930s. During this period, the two actors reached the peak of their popularity and critical acclaim. At the same time, vaudeville, their customary meal ticket, was declining while Black jazz was attracting more and more adherents.
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The effect of jazz dance on physical and mental health of students with different physical fitness.

Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 2019
BACKGROUND The physical and mental health of college students tends to continuously decline worldwide. Thus, improving their health is necessary. Jazz dance may be one of the effective exercises to improve one's health.
Ziheng Wang, G. An, Wanting Zhang, Guang Yang   +3 more
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Jazz Age Jews

, 2018
By the 1920s, Jews were - by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day - making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded ...
M. Alexander
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Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana

Ghana Studies, 2017
“That’s music’s strength, I think, the way everything can come together politically and spiritually, without reading books” (118). These are the words of Nii Noi Nortey, one of the cosmopolitan Ghanaian jazz musicians with whom Steven Feld collaborates ...
Karl J. Haas
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Score One for Jazz: Working Memory in Jazz and Classical Musicians

Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain, 2018
Jazz musicians rely on different skills than do classical musicians for successful performances. We investigated the working memory span of classical and jazz student musicians on musical and nonmusical working memory tasks.
Bryan E. Nichols, Clemens Wöllner, A. Halpern   +2 more
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