Author:
Bruford, Bill, author.
ImprintAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Descriptionxiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:1. Action and Experience -- 2. Sinta and Roach: Two Modes of Performance -- 3. A Variety of Scripts: Performance in Context -- 4. The Biggest Challenge: Selecting Content -- 5. It's All What We Do with It: Constructing Difference -- 6. Reaching Others: Communicating Experience -- 7. I Never Heard It Before: Assessing Significance -- 8. The Experience That Disappears: Perceptions and Meaning -- 9. Breaking Down: Conclusions.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
Note: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.
