Includes bibliographical references and index.

Improvisation and music education : beyond the classroom / Ajay Heble and Mark Laver -- On the ethics of teaching "jazz" (and "America's classical music," and "BAM," and "improvisational music," and ...) / David Ake -- Improvisation pedagogy in theory and practice / Jesse Stewart -- Free improvisation and performance anxiety in musicians / Kathryn Ladano -- Analysis, improvisation, and openness / Chris Stover -- Embodied action frameworks : teaching multicultural ear training / Howard Spring -- From jazz pedagogy to improvisation pedagogy : solving the problem of genre in beginning improvisation training / Gabriel Solis -- Time to change the curriculum : revaluing improvisation in twenty-first century Canada / Parmela Attariwala -- Back into the classroom : learning music through historical improvisation / Peter Schubert and Massimiliano Guido -- Thoroughbass as pedagogy in the teaching of improvisation in undergraduate music theory courses / Vincent P. Benitez -- Improvise globally, strategize locally : institutional structures & ethnomusicological agency / Scott Currie -- Teaching the "compleat musician" : contemporary improvisation at New England Conservatory / Tanya Kalmanovitch -- Becoming music : building castles with sound / William Parker -- The music is the pedagogy / David Dove -- Informed by children : awakening improvisatory impulses in university students / Matt Swanson and Patricia Shehan Campbell -- "Things that you hope a human being will be" : Jane Bunnett in conversation with Ajay Heble / Ajay Heble and Jane Bunnett -- The share : improvisation and community in the neoliberal university / Mark Laver -- Control This! : digital improvisation & pedagogy / Mark V. Campbell -- Education for liberation, not mainstream socialization : the improvisation pedagogy of students at the center in New Orleans / George Lipsitz.