Gender, Magic, and Innovation
The Musical Artistry of Joni Mitchell
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21836378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Lloyd (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 114-131 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rock Music Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-1159 • E-ISSN: 1940-1167 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19401159.2020.1725359 |
| OpenAlex | W3005335995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Joni Mitchell has long defied efforts at categorization. We cannot pin her down but we all agree that she was brilliant. Her artistry challenges scholars predisposed towards sociocultural accounts of musical performance to revisit the question of uncommon creativity. Gender – the idea that there was something distinctively feminine about her innovations – offers one avenue of inquiry. Another opens up if we pursue Mitchell’s own observations about the mystical tenor of her compositional process. The latter approach ruffles our feathers as rationalists but may be necessary nonetheless if we are to maintain a connection to the magical qualities of musical experience
Aesthetics · Art · Categorization · Creativity · Epistemology · Literature · Musical · Mysticism · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |