Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society (SUNY series in Integral Theory)

Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields. Jazz, America’s original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision. __Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields.__Jazz, America’s original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision. Jazz, America’s Original Art Form, Can Be A Catalyst For Creative And Spiritual Development. With Its Unique Emphasis On Improvisation, Jazz Offers New Paradigms For Educational And Societal Change. In This Provocative Book, Musician And Educator Edward W. Sarath Illuminates How Jazz Offers A Continuum For Transformation. The Aqal Framework -- Improvisation-driven Growth Of Creativity And Consciousness -- Meditation-driven Growth Of Creativity And Consciousness -- Integral Evolutionary Dynamics -- Jazz And The Academy -- Invention -- Interaction -- Individuation -- Jazz -- The Music School Of The Future -- Paradigmatic Change And The Twenty-first-century Academy -- Planet Earth Takes A Solo. Edward W. Sarath. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The AQAL framework Improvisation-driven growth of creativity and consciousness Meditation-driven growth of creativity and consciousness Integral evolutionary dynamics Jazz and the academy Invention Interaction Individuation Jazz The music school of the future Paradigmatic change and the 21st-century academy Planet earth takes a solo. Using insights from Integral Theory, this book describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields