A breed apart and a breed below

Creative Music Performance and the Expert Drummer

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ID4305235
AuthorsBill Bruford (corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume39
Issue2
Pages312-331
Publication date2020-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143019000266
OpenAlexW3082641235
LanguageEN
References cited20

This article argues that contemporary systems theory explanations are insufficient when accounting for 'in the moment' creative musical performance. The system model's focus on a domain-changing contribution from an individual fails to offer a satisfactory account of the construction and assessment of the more everyday distributed and collaborative creativity undertaken by many popular music instrumentalists. A cultural psychology perspective, in contrast, situates distributed creativity inbetween people and objects rather than within them. Glăveanu's 'Five As framework' has particular utility in capturing the ordinary creativity that does not seek to change the domain but nevertheless contributes to it. The model is applied here to four case studies of expert instrumentalists that draw upon a combination of primary evidence, lived experience and original research

Aesthetics · Art · Creativity · Domain (mathematical analysis · Drummer · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Musical · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Visual arts · Action Observation and Synchronization · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · History · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity

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