Gabriel Solis is an associate professor of music and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making.Bruno Nettl is a professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts and other works.

"Valuable not only to researchers but also to performers, who will find their minds opened to how music different from their own can help them improvise better in their chosen genre. . . . Recommended."--Choice "A goldmine of information ... that is relevant to the amateur and scholar alike."--Ethnomusicology "An impressive and often sophisticated collection of essays. . . . it certainly constitutes a welcome addition to the field."--The World of Music"Cutting across traditional subject boundaries in music and cultural studies, this admirably comprehensive work adopts a welcome interdisciplinary ideal and makes a truly significant contribution to our knowledge of musical improvisation."--Robert Witmer, professor emeritus of music, York University

• Preface   ix Bruno NettlIntroduction   1 Gabriel SolisPART ONE: SOCIETY1. Jazz as Political and Musical Practice   21 Ingrid Monson 2. John Cage and Improvisation: An Unresolved Relationship   38 Sabine M. Feisst 3. When Traditional Improvisation Is Prohibited: Contemporary Ukrainian Funeral Laments and Burial Practices   52 Natalie Kononenko 4. The Juncture between Creation and Re-creation among Indonesian Reciters of the Qur'an   72 Anne K. Rasmussen 5. Genius, Improvisation, and the Narratives of Jazz History   90 Gabriel Solis 6. Formulas and Improvisation in Participatory Music   103 Thomas TurinoPART TWO: EDUCATION7. Learning to Improvise Music, Improvising to Learn Music   119 Patricia Shehan Campbell 8. Improvising Mozart   143 Robert Levin 9. Keyboard Improvisation in the Baroque Period   150 Charlotte Mattax Moersch 10. Beyond the Improvisation Class: Learning to Improvise in a University Jazz Studies Program   171 John P. Murphy 11. On Learning the Radif and Improvisation in Iran   185 Bruno Nettl 12. Hindustani Sitar and Jazz Guitar Music: A Foray into Comparative Improvology   200 Stephen Slawek 13. Musical Improvisation in the Modern Dance Class: Techniques and Approaches in Fulfilling a Multi-Layered Role   221 John ToenjesPART THREE: CREATION14. Representations of Music Making   239 Stephen Blum 15. Improvisation and Related Terms in Middle-Period Jazz   263 Lawrence Gushee 16. Opening the Museum Window: Improvisation and Its Inscribed Values in Canonic Works by Chopin and Schumann   281 Robert S. Hatten 17. Improvisation in Beethoven's Creative Process   296 William Kinderman 18. Why Do They Improvise? Reflections on Meaning and Experience   313 Ali Jihad Racy 19. Preluding at the Piano   323 Nicholas Temperley Contributors   343Index   349