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

List of Illustrations

Illustrations Figure 1.1 Four Quadrants (after Wilber) 27 Figure 2.1 Indicators of Creativity and Consciousness Development 43 Figure 2.2 Four Levels of Creativity and Consciousness Awareness 52 Figure 2.3 Indicators of Level I Awareness (Modernism) 54 Figure 2.4 Emergent Indicators of Level IIA Awareness (Postmodern A) 57 Figure 2.5 Emergent Indicators of Level IIB Awareness (Postmodern B) 61 Figure 2.6 Emergent Indicators of Level III Awareness (Integral) 65 Figure 3.1 Ordinary Consciousness 85 Figure 3.2 Transcendence in Meditation 87 Figure 3.3 Active Transcendence 91 Figure 3.4 Distinctions Between Various Processes According to Self-Mediated and Object-Mediated Parameters 111 Figure 3.5 Nested Synergies: Primary, Secondary, and Ancillary Creative Processes 114 Figure 3.6 Nested Synergies Expanded: Meditation and Primary, Secondary, and Ancillary Creativity 115 Figure 5.1 Four Perspectives of the Jazz Tradition 155 viii Illustrations Figure 9.1 West-African Polyrhythmic Patterns Possibly Seminal to Swing (after Chernoff) 259 Figure 9.2 Jazz’s Process-structure Scope and Great Nest of Musical Being 271 Figure 10.1 Primary Differences Between Conventional and Integral Schools of Music 295 ...