JAZZ’S HIDDEN TRANSCRIPTS: BETWEEN CALIBAN AND COLTRANE CRITICAL IMPROVISATIONAL PEDAGOGY AS PRAGMATIC POLITICS

This project addresses problems of political disengagement, social exclusion, multi-generational poverty, and social injustice in communities left behind by an incomplete democracy, now in acute crisis. Using jazz improvisation as a metaphor for Dewey’s ideals for a thriving and creative American democracy, this normative critical theory and pedagogy is part of a multi-pronged approach to radical democratic reform. Building on theories of humanistic prophetic pragmatism, critical pedagogy, and democratic theory, and suffused with critical race feminism, this critical approach begins with individual transformation, critical consciousness, and agency of marginalized citizens, through critical improvisational pedagogy. The approach seeks to prepare more diverse voices for active democratic deliberation and effective participation in democratic public spaces of input, negotiation, and challenge for the issues that affect marginalized people. The project creates an architecture, a basic template, and an operationalization strategy for the development of centers of critical improvisational pedagogy for the transmission of critical knowledge, mentoring, community support, and apprenticeships through culturally appropriate arts and cultural programming in accessible local community sites. Key Words: critical improvisational pedagogy, prophetic pragmatism, critical feminist theory, radical democratic reform, jazz imaginary, critical consciousness

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Temple University. Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Alunan, Susan Catherine

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Davis, Heath Fogg

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Crawford, Nyron
• Goldin-Perschbacher, Shana
• Kidd, Dustin

• Political science
• Critical feminist theory
• Critical improvisational pedagogy
• Critical theory
• Jazz imaginary
• Prophetic pragmatism
• Radical democratic reform

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/8029

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