Vol 4, No 1 (2008)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Reaching Out: Improvisation’s Potential and Limitations PDF HTML
Frédérique Arroyas, Ellen Waterman

Articles

“What I Call a Sound”: Anthony Braxton’s Synaesthetic Ideal and Notations for Improvisers PDF HTML
Graham Lock
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Jazz, Social Relations, and Discourses of Value PDF HTML
Alan Stanbridge
The “Finite” Art of Improvisation: Pedagogy and Power in Jazz Education PDF HTML
Kenneth E. Prouty

Notes and Opinions

Keynote Address at the Guelph Jazz Festival, 2007 PDF HTML
Anthony Braxton
Pitch into Time: Notes on Anthony Braxton’s Lower Register PDF HTML
Stuart Broomer
Steps Against Forgetfulness (Six of Them) PDF HTML
Alain Derbez
Itutu ("On how to appropriately present oneself to others"): Extra-musical pedagogical values of creative music PDF HTML
Alexandre Pierrepont, Pierre Carsalade, Romain Tesler

Interviews

“I Dreamed of Other Worlds”: An Interview with Nicole Mitchell PDF HTML
Ellen Waterman

Book/Media Reviews

Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981): A Reader PDF HTML
Ted Harms

News and Announcements

Call For Papers: Sexualities in Improvisation PDF HTML
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ISSN: 1712-0624