Sunday, January 25, 2015

New Jazz papers: Jeffrey Agrell - Creative Pedagogy for Piano Teachers/ Jeff Warren - Music and Ethical Responsibility

Creative Pedagogy for Piano Teachers - Table of Contents
by Jeffrey Agrell
Overview of contents of this book of musical improvisation games for piano teachers.

Music and Ethical Responsibility
by Jeff Warren

Discussions surrounding music and ethical responsibility bring to mind arguments about legal ownership and purchase. Yet the many ways in which we experience music with others are usually overlooked. Musical experience and practice always involve relationships with other people, which can place limitations on how we listen to and act upon music. In Music and Ethical Responsibility Jeff Warren challenges current approaches to music and ethics, drawing upon philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s theory that ethics is the responsibilities that arise from our encounters with other people. Warren...