Genesis

Abstract This book is for anyone interested in challenging normative practices and assumptions in popular music education and especially for those interested in engaging in humanizing, liberatory, and socially just pedagogies within the field of popular music education. The aims of the book are threefold: (1) To help readers to understand and discuss improvisation as a multifaceted, pluralistic set of practices that affords opportunities to work, think, and exist idiosyncratically and dynamically within their own musical, artistic, and/or scholarly ecosystems. (2) To frame improvisation not simply as a means of creation, but as an important counter-hegemonic pedagogic tool that serves to centralize and highlight the importance of participants, relationships, and practices in learning and development. (3) To provide a platform for scholars to share their ideas, philosophies, practices, discoveries, and ways of working with improvisation, or working improvisationally, thereby inspiring readers to explore improvisation in their own liberatory educational praxis.