Action and experience -- Sinta and Roach: two modes of performance -- A variety of scripts: performance in context -- The biggest challenge: selecting content -- It's all what we do with it: constructing difference -- Reaching others: communicating experience -- I never heard it before: assessing significance -- The experience that disappears: perceptions and meaning -- Breaking down: conclusions.
Summary:
This title offers a study of creativity in the context of expert popular music instrumental performance. Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviours of a specific subset of popular music instrumentalists, Bill Bruford demonstrates the ways in which expert drummers experience creativity in music performance.
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