Benjamin Phipps
Biographic Data
| ID | 6522613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Phipps |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Phipps |
| SIGNATURE | PHIPPS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3734-2851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A narrative review of cognitive load and student motivation in jazz improvisation pedagogy
The process of learning to improvise on a musical instrument is one that often provokes fear among music students, particularly at university. This article explores the existing research to better understand the intersection of teaching jazz improvisation with established strategies such as autonomy-supportive teaching and newer approaches like load-reduction instruction (LRI) emerging from cognitive load theory and self-determination theory (SDT…
Jelly Roll Blues
Leading from Below
Double bass players are most often considered “sidemen” in popular music scholarship. However, double bass players who lead ensembles have made significant contributions as improvisers, artistic innovators, and social commentators in jazz and world music as a globalized popular music phenomenon. In this article, I explore two double bass players who have often innovated, drawing on musical styles outside of jazz to create new sounds on their inst…
Agency, Social Organization, and the Musical Practices of Jazz Bass Players in Australia
The democratic and agentic social meanings of jazz and improvisation have been widely understood in relation to US history; however, performing jazz musicians' everyday experiences cannot necessarily be understood in the same way. Performing in jazz ensembles is a complicated experience, one in which musical roles are negotiated, restricted, or liberated, sometimes in the course of performance as a form of improvisation and at other times in the …
Jazz and cosmopolitan practice
Cosmopolitanism has increasingly been used as a concept to analyse and discuss the cultural and musical practice of jazz musicians. As an interpretive wedge for discussing the history of jazz, cosmopolitanism has been associated with the culturally hybrid establishment of jazz. However, definitions and applications of the term 'cosmopolitanism' remain somewhat ambiguous. In this article, building on the scholarship of cosmopolitanism in jazz, ant…
Riffing on course redesign
In this article, I riff on redesigning music education for online delivery from the perspective of an ethnomusicologist and teacher working as an educational developer during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. I explore how the affordances and limitations of remote learning and online technologies impacted the pedagogical approaches I use to design music courses in tertiary education. Issues such as the applicability of curriculum to students’ w…
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Jazz and cosmopolitan practice
Cosmopolitanism has increasingly been used as a concept to analyse and discuss the cultural and musical practice of jazz musicians. As an interpretive wedge for discussing the history of jazz, cosmopolitanism has been associated with the culturally hybrid establishment of jazz. However, definitions and applications of the term 'cosmopolitanism' remain somewhat ambiguous. In this article, building on the scholarship of cosmopolitanism in jazz, ant…
Riffing on course redesign
In this article, I riff on redesigning music education for online delivery from the perspective of an ethnomusicologist and teacher working as an educational developer during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. I explore how the affordances and limitations of remote learning and online technologies impacted the pedagogical approaches I use to design music courses in tertiary education. Issues such as the applicability of curriculum to students’ w…
Agency, Social Organization, and the Musical Practices of Jazz Bass Players in Australia
The democratic and agentic social meanings of jazz and improvisation have been widely understood in relation to US history; however, performing jazz musicians' everyday experiences cannot necessarily be understood in the same way. Performing in jazz ensembles is a complicated experience, one in which musical roles are negotiated, restricted, or liberated, sometimes in the course of performance as a form of improvisation and at other times in the …
Leading from Below
Double bass players are most often considered “sidemen” in popular music scholarship. However, double bass players who lead ensembles have made significant contributions as improvisers, artistic innovators, and social commentators in jazz and world music as a globalized popular music phenomenon. In this article, I explore two double bass players who have often innovated, drawing on musical styles outside of jazz to create new sounds on their inst…
A narrative review of cognitive load and student motivation in jazz improvisation pedagogy
The process of learning to improvise on a musical instrument is one that often provokes fear among music students, particularly at university. This article explores the existing research to better understand the intersection of teaching jazz improvisation with established strategies such as autonomy-supportive teaching and newer approaches like load-reduction instruction (LRI) emerging from cognitive load theory and self-determination theory (SDT…
Jelly Roll Blues
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