Swinging within the iron cage: Modernity, creativity, and embodied practice in American postsecondary jazz education

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 563-582

  Wilf, Eitan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

creativity; embodied practice; improvisation; jazz music; modernity; schooling; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954709172     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01273.x     Document Type: Article

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