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SUMMARY:Communication\, Collaboration and Creativity: How Musicians Negoti
 ate a Collective ‘Sound' - Professor Karen Littleton\, The Open Universi
 ty
DTSTART:20111025T153000Z
DTEND:20111025T170000Z
UID:TALK33743@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Miss Camilla Burgess
DESCRIPTION:Studies of collective rehearsal for musical performance are re
 latively scarce\; reflecting both the paucity of interest within music edu
 cation research\, in creative rather reproductive musical activities and t
 he enduring emphasis on composition as a solitary rather than a collective
 \, community-based process (Young\, 2008). Furthermore\,  as Sawyer and De
 Zutter (2009) have noted\, even though there has been a wave of research t
 hat has recognised how creativity is embedded in social groups (e.g. Sawye
 r\, 2006) and how creative products emerge from collaboration (p. 81) we s
 till have very little understanding of the processes whereby creative prod
 ucts emerge from groups. One of my aims in this seminar is therefore to un
 derscore the case that we should be studying these processes - both to adv
 ance our understanding of the nature of collaborative music making and 'im
 agining' and collaborative creativity more generally. A second aim is to s
 uggest the suitability of sociocultural theory and discourse analysis as t
 he basis for making such analyses\, with the emphasis on the shared histor
 ical knowledge of communities (in this case\, of musical genres and practi
 ces) and the importance of language and other communicative tools for purs
 uing and achieving common goals. To this end\, in this session I will exem
 plify how sociocultural discourse analysis can shed light on: (1) the proc
 esses by which musicians negotiate musical common knowledge\; (2) the sign
 ificance of disputes and conflicts in the pursuit of common goals\; (3) ho
 w influences are fused and connected to produce a distinctive and unique '
 sound' and (4) how language is used in conjunction with other modes to pro
 duce a persuasive 'discourse' in joint preparation for musical performance
 .
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, (Rm
  GS1\, Donald McIntyre Building)
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