Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music (Studies in Musical Performance as Creative Practice)

Clarke, Eric & Doffman, Mark

ISBN 10: 0199355916 / ISBN 13: 9780199355914

Published by Oxford University Press, 2017

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Book and jacket in very tidy condition. No inscriptions or markings. Creative practice in music, particularly in traditional concert culture, is commonly understood in terms of a rather stark division of labour between composer and performer. But this overlooks the distributed and interactive nature of the creative processes on which so much contemporary music depends. The incorporation of two features-improvisation and collaboration-into much contemporary music suggests that the received view of the relationship between composition and performance requires reassessment. Improvisation and collaborative working practices blur the composition/performance divide and, in doing so, provide important new perspectives on the forms of distributed creativity that play a central part in much contemporary music. Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music explores the different ways in which collaboration and improvisation enable and constrain creative processes. Thirteen chapters and twelve shorter Interventions offer a range of perspectives on distributed creativity in music, on composer/performer collaborations and on contemporary improvisation practices. The chapters provide substantial discussions of a variety of conceptual frameworks and particular projects, while the Interventions present more informal contributions from a variety of practitioners (performers, composers, improvisers), giving insights into the pleasures and perils of working creatively in collaborative and improvised ways.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music (Studies in Musical Performance as Creative Practice)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199355916
• ISBN 13: 9780199355914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Creative practice in music takes place in a distributed and interactive manner embracing the activities of composers, performers and improvisers. The thirteen chapters and twelve shorter Interventions of Distributed Creativity explore the ways in which collaboration and improvisation enable and constrain creative processes in contemporary music.

About the Author

Eric Clarke is Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published on issues in the psychology of music, musical meaning, music and consciousness, and the analysis of pop. His books include Ways of Listening (2005), Music and Mind in Everyday Life (2010), and Music and Consciousness (2011).

Mark Doffman is a lecturer in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, where he was a research associate in the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice before receiving a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. He has research interests in the psycho-social aspects of performance; has published on jazz, creativity and social interaction in music; and performs regularly as a jazz drummer.