Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction: Th e Academic Jazz Program as a Hybrid 1
5. 2. Contexts and Histories: The Search for Cultural Legitimacy and the Reconfiguration of Obsolete Jazz Scenes 25
6. 3. “Think-Tank Music”: Public Ambivalences and Contradictions 53
7. 4. Charisma Infusion: Bringing the “Street” Back into the Classroom 83
8. 5. Rituals of Creativity: Inhabiting the Echoes of the Past 115
9. 6. Transcribing Creativity as Creative Transcribing: Legitimizing Theory and Expertise 139
10. 7. “Now you have to think simple!”: Improvisatory Techniques of the Improvising Body 163
11. 8. The Games Students Play: Technologies of the Listening Self 189
12. Conclusion 221
13. Notes 231
14. Works Cited 243
15. Index 257