Edward W. Sarath 
Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness [EPUB ebook] 
Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society

Jazz, America’s original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction




Part I. Creativity, Consciousness, and the Integral Vision



1. The AQAL Framework

2. Improvisation-driven Growth of Creativity and Consciousness

3. Meditation-driven Growth of Creativity and Consciousness

4. Integral Evolutionary Dynamic




Part II. Jazz: An Integral Reading



5. Jazz and the Academy

6. Invention: Improvisation and Composition as Contrasting Pathways to Transcendence

7. Interaction: a Systems View of the Improvisation Process

8. Individuation: An Integral View of Personal and Collective Style Evolution

9. Jazz: An Integral Reading




Part III. Change



10. The Music School of the Future

11. Paradigmatic Change and the Twenty-first-century Academy

12. Planet Earth Takes a Solo



Notes

Bibliography

Index

Om författaren

Edward W. Sarath is Professor of Music and Director of the Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of
Music Theory through Improvisation: A New Approach to Musicianship Training.