Hargreaves, David - Musical Imaginations

Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour. This book 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.

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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 Goran 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 Erkkila: 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?