Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Creativity, Consciousness, and the Integral Vision 1. The AQAL Framework 25 2. Improvisation-driven Growth of Creativity and Consciousness 37 3. Meditation-driven Growth of Creativity and Consciousness 79 4. Integral Evolutionary Dynamics 123 Part II. Jazz: An Integral Reading 5. Jazz and the Academy 149 6. Invention: Improvisation and Composition as Contrasting Pathways to Transcendence 169 7. Interaction: A Systems View of the Improvisation Process 207 8. Individuation: An Integral View of Personal and Collective Style Evolution 223 9. Jazz: An Integral Reading 245 vi Contents Part III. Change 10. The Music School of the Future 291 11. Paradigmatic Change and the Twenty-first-century Academy 347 12. Planet Earth Takes a Solo 397 Notes 415 Bibliography 449 Index 467 ...