What do I need to know to improvise? Ep.1

A discussion which begins to define/understand what our knowledge is about when we improvise.
This builds on cognitive research into improvisation, which has been active since the 1980s. Rather than taking this discussion into the cognitive arena however (particularly the arena of information processing and the brain-as-computer analogies) I kick off with a look at cultural expectations of improvisers and how this colours people's view of what improvisation 'is'. Only by understanding these cultural contexts in which (musical) knowledge is formed can we begin to see what kind of knowledge develops when we improvise.
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