What Is This Thing Called Soul: Conversations on Black Culture and Jazz Education (Black Studies and Critical Thinking #103) (Hardcover)

What Is This Thing Called Soul: Conversations on Black Culture and Jazz Education (Black Studies and Critical Thinking #103) By Rochelle Brock (Other), Damani Phillips Cover Image

What Is This Thing Called Soul: Conversations on Black Culture and Jazz Education (Black Studies and Critical Thinking #103) (Hardcover)

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This is book number 103 in the Black Studies and Critical Thinking series.

What Is This Thing Called Soul explores the potential consequences of forcing the Black musical style of jazz into an academic pedagogical system that is specifically designed to facilitate the practice and pedagogy of European classical music.
Damani Phillips is a native of Pontiac, Michigan, and currently serves as Associate Professor of Jazz and African-American Studies at the University of Iowa. Phillips has earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from DePaul University and the University of Kentucky in classical saxophone, a second Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Wayne State University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Jazz Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. An active performer, teacher and lecturer, Phillips has taught and performed throughout the world. He previously served on the faculty of Grinnell College and is actively sought as a guest artist, clinician and adjudicator throughout the country. Phillips has performed with artists/groups such as Lewis Nash, Christian McBride, Wycliffe Gordon, Bobby McFerrin, Marcus Belgrave, Terell Stafford, Hank Jones, Red Holloway and Pat Bianchi, among many others. He has released four albums as a leader: Yaktown Nights (2003), The String Theory (2010), The Reckoning (2012) and Duality (2015).
Product Details ISBN: 9781433145650
ISBN-10: 1433145650
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Publication Date: October 16th, 2017
Pages: 240
Language: English
Series: Black Studies and Critical Thinking