Jazz cats unmasked : revealing tales/tails of jazz education, musicians and teachers Loughlin, Jill 2009, Jazz cats unmasked : revealing tales/tails of jazz education, musicians and teachers, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Jazz cats unmasked : revealing tales/tails of jazz education, musicians and teachers Author(s) Loughlin, Jill orcid.org/0000-0002-7416-5268 Publication date 2009 Total pages 261 Publisher Lambert Academic Publishing Place of Publication Germany Keyword(s) jazz education music education philosophy New Zealand jazz teacher subjectivity arts-informed research narrative inquiry Summary New Zealand jazz education has come of age in the last 30 years.  The presence of a jazz curriculum in schools and universities has reflected students' desire to study this vernacular music and an adherence to international shifts in music education.  Yet, the Jazz genre commands the least market share in terms of record sales and concert attendance worldwide.  Now often described as America's true 'classical music', the cogent questions would seem to be 'why jazz', 'why now' and 'why here'?  This book explores these questions through the narrative of two New Zealand-born jazz educators who have made considerable contributions in post-secondary settigns.  It takes a critical look at their musical lives, and the influence that experience, context  and self-perception has ontheir teaching philosophies.  Stripping back the layers created by predominant binaries of musician/educator, glocal/global, history/genealogy, formal/informal and generalist/specialist, thsi book makes liberal use of a range of  arts-informed methodologies to unmask the main actors in jazz education adding to the ongoing broader international discussion of future directions of the art. ISBN 9783838316635 Language eng Field of Research 220202 History and Philosophy of Education 130103 Higher Education Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category A2 Authored - other Copyright notice ©2009 Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30022831 Document type: Book Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 01 Feb 2010, 10:58:58 EST Mon, 01 Feb 2010, 12:46:02 EST Mon, 01 Feb 2010, 12:46:49 EST Tue, 02 Feb 2010, 08:06:13 EST Mon, 15 Aug 2011, 13:44:45 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2011, 10:35:13 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2011, 10:36:16 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2011, 10:38:58 EST Fri, 01 Aug 2014, 10:22:44 EST Fri, 01 Aug 2014, 10:31:23 EST Wed, 17 Sep 2014, 19:09:33 EST Mon, 19 Jan 2015, 11:01:53 EST Fri, 06 Feb 2015, 10:32:46 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 505 Abstract Views, 5 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 01 Feb 2010, 10:58:54 EST by Jill Loughlin