Activating diverse musical creativities
Subtitle: teaching and learning in higher music education
By: edited by Pamela Burnard and Elizabeth Haddon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781472589118; 9781472589125; 9781472589132
Subjects: Music in universities and colleges; Music; Instruction and study; Technological innovations; Composition (Music)
Description: Activating Diverse Musical Creativities analyses the ways in which music programmes in higher education can activate and foster diverse musical creativities. It also demonstrates the relationship between musical creativities and entrepreneurship in higher education teaching and learning. These issues are of vital significance to contemporary educational practice and training in both university and conservatoire contexts, particularly when considered alongside the growing importance of entrepreneurship, defined here as a type of creativity, for successful musicians working in the 21st century creative and cultural industries. International contributors address a broad spectrum of musical creativities in higher education, such as improvisational creativity, empathic creativity and leadership creativity, demonstrating the transformative possibilities of embedding these within higher music education teaching and learning. The chapters explore the active practice of musical creativities in teaching and learning and recognize their mutual dependency. The contributors consider philosophical and practical concerns in their work on teaching for creativity in higher music education and focus on practices using imaginative approaches in order to make learning more interesting, effective and relevant
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Experiments in learning. On the other side of the divide : making sense of student stories of creativities in music / Dawn Bennett, Anna Reid and Peter Petocz ; Creativities in popular songwriting curricula : teaching or learning? / Joe Bennett ; Killing the muse : listening creativities and the journey to creative mastery / Donna Weston and Tim Byron ; Permission to play : fostering enterprise creativities in music technology through extra-curricular interdisciplinary collaboration / Elizabeth Dobson; title: Experiments in teaching. Activating improvisational creativity in the performance of "world" and "popular" music / Sue Miller ; The inner voice : activating intuitive and improvisational creativities / Esmé Olthuis ; Activating empathic creativity in musicking through university-community partnerships / Susan Helfter and Beatriz Ilari ; Activating communal creativities for redesigning higher education curriculum, pedagogy and assessment : drawing on intercultural experience / Lindy Joubert and Violeta Schubert ; Being a composer in an age of uncertainties, risks and diffuse creativity : learning, career and creativities / Antonio Angelo Vasconcelos; title: Engaging technologies. Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities / Andrew King ;  Activating digital creativities in higher music education / Leah Kardos ; Creative teaching with performing arts students : developing career creativities through the use of ePortFolios for career awareness and resilience / Jennifer Rowley, Dawn Bennett and Peter Dunbar-Hall.