School for Cool: The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity

Introduction : The Academic Jazz Program As A Hybrid -- Context And Histories : The Search For Cultural Legitimacy And The Reconfiguration Of Obsolete Jazz Scenes -- Think-tank Music : Public Ambivalences And Contradictions -- Charisma Infusion : Bringing The Street Back Into The Classroom -- Rituals Of Creativity : Inhabiting The Echoes Of The Past -- Transcribing Creativity As Creative Transcribing : Legitimizing Theory And Expertise -- Now You Have To Think Simple! : Improvisatory Techniques Of The Improvising Body -- The Games Students Play : Technologies Of The Listening Self. Eitan Y. Wilf. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 243-256) And Index.