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Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour, though, until recently, they have been difficult to subject to empirical enquiry. However, music psychology and some allied disciplines have now developed, both theoretically and methodologically, to the point where some of these topics are now firmly within our grasp. The study of creativity and imagination is growing rapidly in disciplines including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and education. The inter- and multidisciplinary study of music, and developments in music psychology in particular, mean that studies of musical imagination and creativity in action are now distinctly possible'Musical Imaginations' is a wide ranging, multidisciplinary review of the latest theory and research on musical creativity, performance and perception by some of the most eminent scholars in their respective disciplines. The topics addressed in this book include the investigation of creativity and imagination in music and emotion, composition and improvisation, performance and performance traditions, listening strategies, different musical genres and cultural belief systems, social collaboration, identity formation, and the development of psychologically-based strategies and interventions for the enhancement of performing musicians. With creativity now a topic of significant interest, this book will be valuable to all those in the fields of psychology, sociology, neuroscience, education, as well as to musicians themselves - dealing with practical as well as theoretical issues in music therapy, performance and education. The study of creativity and imagination is growing rapidly in disciplines including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and education. The inter- and multidisciplinary study of music, and developments in music psychology in particular, mean that studies of musical imagination and creativity in action are now distinctly possible. This book undertakes a multidisciplinary review of these developments. It contains a wide range of contributions by some of the most eminent scholars in their respective disciplines, representing a comprehensive account of the state of the art of theory and research on musical creativity, performance and perception.

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Author:   David Hargreaves (Professor of Education, Roehampton University, UK) ,  Dorothy Miell (Professor of Social Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Raymond MacDonald (Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation, School of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.864kg
ISBN:  

9780199568086

ISBN 10:   0199568081
Pages:   498
Publication Date:   22 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: David Hargreaves, Raymond MacDonald & Dorothy Miell: Explaining musical imaginations: Creativity, performance and perception Perspectives from musicology, sociology, and ethnomusicology 2: Eric Clarke: Creativity in performance 3: Adam Ockelford: Imagination feeds memory: Exploring evidence from a musical savant using zygonic theory 4: Simon Frith: Creativity as a social fact 5: Ian Sutherland with Tia De Nora: Musical creativity as social agency: Composer Paul Hindemith 6: Juniper Hill: Imagining creativity: An ethnomusicological perspective on how belief systems encourage or inhibit creative activities in music Perspectives from cognitive, social, and developmental psychology 7: Shira Lee Katz & Howard Gardner: Musical materials or metaphorical models? A psychological investigation of what inspires composers 8: Emery Schubert: Spreading activation and dissociation: A cognitive mechanism for creative processing in music 9: Vladimir Kone?ni: Life-events, emotion, and reason in the creative process in art music 10: David Hargreaves, Jonathan James Hargreaves & Adrian North: Imagination and creativity in music listening 11: Annabel Cohen: Creativity in singing: Universality and sensitive developmental periods? Perspectives from socio-cultural psychology 12: Göran Folkestad: Digital tools and discourse in music: The ecology of composition 13: Margaret Barrett: Troubling the creative imaginary: Some possibilities of ecological thinking for music and learning 14: Karin Johansson: Organ improvisation: Edition, extemporisation, expansion and instant composition 15: Karen Littleton & Neil Mercer: Communication, collaboration and creativity: How musicians negotiate a collective 'sound' 16: Raymond MacDonald, Graeme Wilson & Dorothy Miell: Improvisation as a creative process within contemporary music Perspectives from neuroscience 17: Colwyn Trevarthen: Communicative musicality: The human impulse to create and share music 18: Mari Tervaniemi: Musicianship - how and where in the brain? 19: Bradley Vines: Recreating speech through singing for stroke patients with non-fluent aphasia 20: Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, Vanya Green Assuied & Katie Overy: Shared affective motion experience (SAME) and creative, interactive music therapy 21: John Gruzelier: Enhancing imaginative expression in the performing arts with EEG-neurofeedback 22: Terry Clark, Aaron Williamon & Aleksandar Aksentijevic: Musical imagery and imagination: The function, measurement and application of imagery skills for performance Perspectives from education, psychiatry, and therapy 23: Lori A. Custodero: The call to create: Flow experience in music learning and teaching 24: Graham Welch: Musical creativity, biography, genre and learning 25: Denise Grocke & David Castle: Music, music therapy, and schizophrenia 26: Jaakko Erkkilä: Creativity in improvisational, psychodynamic music therapy 27: Tony Wigram: Developing creative improvisation skills in music therapy: The tools for imaginative music making 28: Nicholas Cook: Beyond creativity?

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David Hargreaves is Professor of Education and Froebel Research Fellow at Roehampton University, and Visiting Professor at the Inter-University Institute of Macau, and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2004. He has been Editor of Psychology of Music, Chair of the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME), and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, His books, in psychology, education, the arts, and music have been translated into 15 languages. He has appeared on BBC TV and radio as a jazz pianist and composer, and is organist at his local village church, but really ought to do more jazz playing than he currently has time for. Dorothy Miell is Vice Principal at the University of Edinburgh and Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science within the University. Previously she was Professor of Psychology and Dean of Social Sciences at The Open University where she was a member of the multidisciplinary Music Research Group. Starting with her doctoral research on communication patterns in developing relationships she has developed an increasing interest in studying how people collaborate on creative activities, working across boundaries between Music, Education, Social and Developmental Psychology and with colleagues in the UK and internationally. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Thinking Skills and Creativity, Psychology of Music, and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Raymond MacDonald is Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Glasgow Caledonian University. After completing his PhD at the University of Glasgow, investigating therapeutic applications of music, he worked as Artistic Director for a music company, Sounds of Progress, specialising in working with people who have special needs. His ongoing research focuses on issues relating to improvisation, musical communication, music therapy, music education and musical identities. He has co-edited two texts with Dorothy Miell and David Hargreaves, Musical Identities (2002) and Musical Communication (2005) and is currently working on two new books, Music Health and Wellbeing and Musical Imaginations. He is currently Editor of the journal Psychology of Music and Associate Editor for The International Journal of Music Education, Jazz Research Journal and Research Studies in Music Education. As a composer and saxophonist he has recorded over 50 CDs and has toured and broadcast worldwide.

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