Sykes, Tom (2024) Education, community and inclusivity: from university big band to community of practice. In: 4th Conference of the International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz, 3-5 October 2024, Vienna, Austria.
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Abstract
Jazz is largely a collaborative artform, often involving exclusive collaboration between musicians of a similar level of experience and ability. When thinking of communities of practice more inclusively, the practice of jazz occurs at many levels and by a wide range of people, sometimes containing a diversity of knowledge and experience. In education and community music contexts, communities of practice in jazz can comprise a mixture of amateur and professional musicians, students, and educators. Following Wenger and Wenger’s conceptualization, the members of such communities of practice have a shared interest in jazz and developing their creative practice in the music, usually within an ensemble.
In this presentation I will consider ways in which educational and community groups in jazz may operate as communities of practice, and how artistic research might reveal ways in which members learn and improve their jazz practice. As a case study, my university big band – which includes musicians from the local community as well as students – and the wider community of practice of this ensemble along with recent collaborations, will be discussed. Such collaborations include the participation of specific groups that are often marginalized, such as female school students in the Jazz Camp for Girls project.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | Jazz education, extra-curricular music, community of practice |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Creative and Performing Arts |
| Depositing User: | Tom Sykes |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2024 16:39 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2024 16:39 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4413 |
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