Introduction: Improvisation and Pedagogical Freedom in Popular Music Education Gareth Dylan Smith and Zack Moir Chapter 1. Improvisation and Higher Popular Music Education: Onto-Epistemic heterogeneity, liberation, and counter hegemonic praxis Zack Moir Chapter 2. Playing with Failure: Improvisation as Resistance to Institutional, Ideological, and Industrial Norms in Higher Popular Music Education Robert S. McLaughlin Chapter 3. Freedom's more than "just another word for nothing left to lose": New musical virtuosities, healthy musical identities, and teaching improvisation Raymond MacDonald Chapter 4. Improvisation as Liberatory Praxis Frank Abrahams Chapter 5. An Unexpected Journey: The Art of Teaching as Improvisation in High School Choir Austina Lee Chapter 6. Percussive, Prosaic, Punkademic Praxis and Popular Music Education Gareth Dylan Smith Chapter 7.

Improvised Teaching: Popular Music, Methodolatry, and Consciousness David Knapp Chapter 8. Reflecting on Carnivalesque Improvisation as Anti-Racist Public Pedagogy: The Case of The Rumba Madre David Diéguez Chapter 9. The Ethics of Improvisation Through the World Music Pedagogy Approach William J. Coppola and Patricia Shehan Campbell Chapter 10. Create and Connect: Improvisation as a Collaborative Learning Experience Heloisa Feichas and Sean Gregory Chapter 11. "The Happiness is Better When It's Shared": Reflecting on and Contextualizing the York College Community Jam Session Tom Zlabinger Chapter 12. "You were only waiting for this moment to arise": Dialoguing on the possibilities of improvisation pedagogy for a liberatory music education Rolf Martin Snustad and David Lines Chapter 13. Improvisation is Not a Toy: Liberating from Liberation Itself Ed Sarath Index.