Jazz improvisation as situated cognition: historical and analytical perspectives on the music of Milt Jackson

This thesis examines the life and music of vibraphonist Milt Jackson as a form of situated cognition. Situated cognition theory, or situated learning, argues for the ecological specificity of perception: namely that knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts. M...

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Main Author: Gagatsis, Alexander Christos
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51736/