How to teach jazz history : a teacher's manual and test bank / Mark C. Gridley.
| Author/creator | Gridley, Mark C., 1947- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | Manhattan, Kansas : International Association of Jazz Educators, 1991. |
| Description | 114 pages ; 28 cm |
| Subjects |
| Partial contents | How to apportion treatment of the different styles -- How to get students involved -- Finding resources -- If you are teaching this course for the first time -- Encouraging and measuring learning -- What is jazz? -- Appreciating jazz improvisation -- Origins of jazz -- Early jazz -- Swing -- Duke Ellington -- Count Basie -- Bop -- Cool -- Illustrating the emancipation of the modern jazz rhythm section -- Miles Davis -- Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter & Tony Williams -- John Coltrane -- Avant garde and "free" jazz of the 1960s and 70s -- Charles Mingus -- The second Chicago school -- Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea & Keith Jarrett -- Jazz-rock -- Final exam. |
| Abstract | This manual contains teaching techniques and test materials that were accumulated from the author's experiences teaching jazz history to nonmusicians, along with discussions with numerous other instructors and their students. The teachers' manual has a 138-page companion volume, "The Teachers' Resource Manual." The work contains numerous lecture-demonstration ideas, course syllabi, suggestions for first-time teachers, listening exercises, and a 65-page annotated discography. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |