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Classroom Action

Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education

By: Ajay Heble

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Classroom Action

Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education

By: Ajay Heble

Building on the concept of a “teaching community,” Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and theories they have learned and the broader community beyond campus. Utilizing a case study approach, the chapters in this volume are conceptually and practically useful for teachers and students involved in thinking about and implementing community-based forms of teaching and learning. Classroom Action links teaching and research in genuinely innovative ways, and provides a range of dissemination strategies to inspire broad-based outcomes and impact among a diverse range of knowledge-users. It marks a major advance on the ways in which the relationship among pedagogy, human rights, and community-based learning has hitherto been theorized and practiced. The community-based learning at the centre of Classroom Action prompts a radically new means of thinking about what teachers do in the classroom, and how and why they do it.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487511841

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The Tumble of Reason

Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence

By: Ajay Heble

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The Tumble of Reason

Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence

By: Ajay Heble

Munro's stories confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer reality, but also by bestowing upon the reader a stimulating wealth of possibilities taken from what we might call a potential or absent level of meaning.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802006175

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Landing on the Wrong Note

Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

By: Ajay Heble

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Landing on the Wrong Note

Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

By: Ajay Heble

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.

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Routledge

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1134001290

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Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

By: Ajay Heble,Jesse Stewart

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Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

By: Ajay Heble,Jesse Stewart

Drawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography, secondary literature, interviews with leading improvisers, and personal anecdotal material, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to “jam the classroom” is to argue for a renewed understanding of improvisation as both a musical and a social practice; to activate the knowledge and resources associated with improvisational practices in an expression of noncompliance with dominant orders of knowledge production; and to recognize in the musical practices of aggrieved communities something far from the reaches of conventional forms of institutionalized power, yet something equally powerful, urgent, and expansive. With this definition of jamming the classroom in mind, Heble and Stewart argue that even as improvisation gains recognition within mainstream institutions (including classrooms in universities), it needs to be understood as a critique of dominant institutionalized assumptions and epistemic orders. Suggesting a closer consideration of why musical improvisation has been largely expunged from dominant models of pedagogical inquiry in both classrooms and communities, this book asks what it means to theorize the pedagogy of improvised music in relation to public programs of action, debate, and critical practice.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472903756

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The Fierce Urgency of Now

Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

By: Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble,George Lipsitz

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The Fierce Urgency of Now

Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

By: Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble,George Lipsitz

The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, immediate, expressive, ephemeral, and even accidental, while rights refer to formal standards of acceptable human conduct, rules that are permanent, impersonal, universal, abstract, and inflexible. Yet the authors not only suggest that improvisation and rights can be connected; they insist that they must be connected. Improvisation is the creation and development of new, unexpected, and productive cocreative relations among people. It cultivates the capacity to discern elements of possibility, potential, hope, and promise where none are readily apparent. Improvisers work with the tools they have in the arenas that are open to them. Proceeding without a written score or script, they collaborate to envision and enact something new, to enrich their experience in the world by acting on it and changing it. By analyzing the dynamics of particular artistic improvisations, mostly by contemporary American jazz musicians, the authors reveal improvisation as a viable and urgently needed model for social change. In the process, they rethink politics, music, and the connections between them.

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Duke University Press

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0822378353

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Classroom Action

Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education

By: Ajay Heble

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Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education

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Landing on the Wrong Note

Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

By: Ajay Heble

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Landing on the Wrong Note

Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415923484

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The Tumble of Reason

Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence

By: Ajay Heble

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The Tumble of Reason

Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence

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Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do not, say or tell. Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the fiction, but also on what might have happened. Munro's stories confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer reality, but also by bestowing upon the reader a stimulating wealth of possibilities taken from what we might call a potential or absent level of meaning. Characteristically, they articulate an unresolvable tension between variants on these positions: between, on the one hand, her delineation of a surface reality - a world 'out there' which we are invited to recognize as real and true - and, on the other, her involvement with a discourse of absence that challenges the very conventions within which her fiction operates. Drawing on structuralist and post-structuralist theories of language and its relation to meaning, knowledge, and systems of power, and on theories of postmodernist fiction, Heble offers both a careful reading of Munro's stories and a theoretical framework for reading meanings in absence. His book extends recent revisionist analysis and makes a valuable and original contribution to the criticism on Munro.

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Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

By: Ajay Heble,Jesse Stewart

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Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

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The Fierce Urgency of Now

Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

By: Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble,George Lipsitz

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Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

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People Get Ready

The Future of Jazz Is Now!

By: Ajay Heble,Rob Wallace

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People Get Ready

The Future of Jazz Is Now!

By: Ajay Heble,Rob Wallace

In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay captures some of them in candid moments before performances. Other pieces revise standard accounts of well-known jazz figures, such as Duke Ellington, and lesser-known musicians, including Jeanne Lee; delve into how money, class, space, and economics affect the performance of experimental music; and take up the question of how digital technology influences improvisation. People Get Ready offers a vision for the future of jazz based on an appreciation of the complexity of its past and the abundance of innovation in the present. Contributors. Tamar Barzel, John Brackett, Douglas Ewart, Ajay Heble, Vijay Iyer, Thomas King, Tracy McMullen, Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Eric Porter, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Jaribu Shahid, Julie Dawn Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, Alan Stanbridge, John Szwed, Greg Tate, Scott Thomson, Rob Wallace, Ellen Waterman, Corey Wilkes

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Classroom Action

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The Tumble of Reason

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Landing on the Wrong Note

Landing on the Wrong Note

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Jamming the Classroom

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Landing on the Wrong Note

Landing on the Wrong Note

The Tumble of Reason

The Tumble of Reason

Jamming the Classroom

Jamming the Classroom

The Fierce Urgency of Now

The Fierce Urgency of Now

People Get Ready

People Get Ready

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