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Schyff, D. V. D., Schiavio, A., Walton, A., Velardo, V., & Chemero, A. (2018). Musical creativity and the embodied mind: Exploring the possibilities of 4E cognition and dynamical systems theory. Music & Science, 1, 2059204318792319. Added by: alexb44 (3/5/25, 11:30 AM) Last edited by: alexb44 (3/5/25, 11:48 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article DOI: 10.1177/2059204318792319 BibTeX citation key: Schyff2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: AI/Machine Learning Creators: Chemero, Schiavio, Schyff, Velardo, Walton Collection: Music & Science |
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The phenomenon of creativity has received a growing amount of attention from scholars working across a range of disciplines. While this research has produced many important insights, it has also traditionally tended to explore creativity in terms of the reception of products or outcomes, conceiving of it as a cognitive process that is limited to the individual domain of the creative agent. More recently, however, researchers have begun to develop perspectives on creativity that highlight the patterns of adaptive embodied interaction that occur between multiple agents, as well as the broader socio-material milieu they are situated in. This has promoted new understandings of creativity, which is now often considered as a distributed phenomenon. Because music involves such a wide range of socio-cultural, bodily, technological, and temporal dimensions it is increasingly taken as a paradigmatic example for researchers who wish to explore creativity from this more relational perspective. In this article, we aim to contribute to this project by discussing musical creativity in light of recent developments in embodied cognitive science. More specifically, we will attempt to frame an approach to musical creativity based in an 4E (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) understanding of cognition. We suggest that this approach may help us better understand creativity in terms of how interacting individuals and social groups bring forth worlds of meaning through shared, embodied processes of dynamic interactivity. We also explore how dynamical systems theory (DST) may offer useful tools for research and theory that align closely with the 4E perspective. To conclude, we summarize our discussion and suggest possibilities for future research.
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Argument for researching music with regards to creativity: “Human creativity has traditionally been explored across a vast range of activities and domains (Kaufman & Sternberg, 2010; Shiu, 2013; Sternberg, 1988). Among these, the array of practices and experiences associated with the phenomenon of “music” may offer an especially rich area for theory, empirical research, and individual reflection (Burnard, 2012; 2013; Odena, 2012). Indeed, human musicality spans an impressive range of being, doing, and knowing—including, for example, primary interactions between infants and caregivers; emotion regulation; therapy and healing; the development of personal, social and cultural identities; collective performance; and the expression of complex aesthetic relationships (DeNora, 2000; McPherson, Davidson, & Faulkner, 2012; Small, 1998). Because of this, developing deeper understandings of what musical creativity entails may result in finer conceptions of creativity more generally.” Kaufman, J. C., & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.) (2010). The Cambridge handbook of creativity. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Shiu, E. (Ed.) (2013). Creativity research: An inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research handbook. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Sternberg, R. J. (1988). The nature of creativity: Contemporary psychological perspectives. Cambridge University Press Burnard, P. (2012). Musical creativities in practice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Burnard, P. (Ed.) (2013). Developing creativities in higher education: International perspectives and practices. London, UK: Routledge. Odena, O. (Ed.) (2012). Musical creativity: Insights from music education research. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. DeNora, T. (2000). Music in everyday life. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. McPherson, G. E., Davidson, J. W., & Faulkner, R. (2012). Music in our lives: Rethinking musical ability, development and identity. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Small, C. (1998). Musicking: The meaning of performing and listening. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. Added by: alexb44 |