Orality, literacy, and mediating musical experience: Rethinking oral tradition in the learning of jazz improvisation

Popular Music and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 317-334

  Prouty, Kenneth E ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34347303367     PISSN: 03007766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03007760600670372     Document Type: Article

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