Jazz Education and the Jazz Periphery: An Example from Estonia

  • Heli Reimann University of Helsinki; Tartu Conservatoire of Music (Estonia)
Keywords: jazz history, jazz pedagogy, Estonia

Abstract

Jazz has firmly established its position in the academic establishment and has its own educational paradigms and pedagogical methodologies. The question arising in this context is the relationship of the central educational and pedagogical paradigms of the educational situation in the imaginary periphery. Is the (so called) central model the only possible way to think about jazz education nowadays? To what the extent does this model of jazz education meet the needs of jazz practices in the periphery? This study tries to give some possible answers to those questions by the example of jazz education and scene in Estonia.

Author Biography

Heli Reimann, University of Helsinki; Tartu Conservatoire of Music (Estonia)

Heli Reimann is a PhD fellow at the University of Helsinki in the faculty of Musicology and a lecturer in jazz theory, history, harmony and transcription at Tartu Conservatoire of Music (Estonia). Her deep interest in jazz took her to the Sibelius Academy Jazz Department, Florida State University, and Rutgers University Newark (Master’s Program in Jazz History and Research). Reimann’s research activities lie in the interstices between jazz studies, cultural studies, literary theory, Soviet studies, Estonian cultural history, and jazz pedagogy.

Published
2012-10-11
Issue
Vol 3 No 2: (Spring 2013)
Section
Roundtable

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