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SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music


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The theme for the series is the psychology of music, broadly defined. Topics include (i) musical development at different ages, (ii) exceptional musical development in the context of special educational needs, (iii) musical cognition and context, (iv) culture, mind and music, (v) micro to macro perspectives on the impact of music on the individual (from neurological studies through to social psychology), (vi) the development of advanced performance skills and (vii) affective perspectives on musical learning. The series presents the implications of research findings for a wide readership, including user-groups (music teachers, policy makers, parents) as well as the international academic and research communities. This expansive embrace, in terms of both subject matter and intended audience (drawing on basic and applied research from across the globe), is the distinguishing feature of the series, and it serves SEMPRE’s distinctive mission, which is to promote and ensure coherent and symbiotic links between education, music and psychology research.

 

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Recorded Music in Creative Practices Mediation, Performance, Education

Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Georgia Volioti, Daniel G Barolsky
July 09, 2024

Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education brings new critical perspectives on recorded music research, artistic practice and education into an active dialogue. Although scholars continue to engage keenly in the study of recordings and studio practices, less attention ...

Music and Mental Imagery

Music and Mental Imagery

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Mats B. Küssner, Liila Taruffi, Georgia A. Floridou
May 27, 2024

Drawing on perspectives from music psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, musicology, clinical psychology, and music education, Music and Mental Imagery provides a critical overview of cutting-edge research on the various types of mental imagery associated with music. The four main parts ...

Teenage Boys, Musical Identities, and Music Education An Australian Narrative Inquiry

Teenage Boys, Musical Identities, and Music Education: An Australian Narrative Inquiry

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jason Goopy
May 02, 2024

Music is a powerful process and resource that can shape and support who we are and wish to be. The interaction between musical identities and learning music highlights school music education’s potential contributions and responsibilities, especially in supporting young people’s mental health and ...

Body and Force in Music Metaphoric Constructions in Music Psychology

Body and Force in Music: Metaphoric Constructions in Music Psychology

1st Edition

By Youn Kim
September 25, 2023

Our understanding of music is inherently metaphorical, and metaphoricity pervades all sorts of musical discourses, be they theoretical, analytical, philosophical, pedagogical, or even scientific. The notions of "body" and "force" are the two most pervasive and comprehensive scientific metaphors in ...

Indian Classical Music and the Gramophone, 1900–1930

Indian Classical Music and the Gramophone, 1900–1930

1st Edition

By Vikram Sampath
September 25, 2023

In 1902 The Gramophone Company in London sent out recording experts on "expeditions" across the world to record voices from different cultures and backgrounds. All over India, it was women who embraced the challenge of overcoming numerous social taboos and aesthetic handicaps that came along with ...

Multilevel Grounding A Theory Of Musical Meaning

Multilevel Grounding: A Theory Of Musical Meaning

1st Edition

By Mihailo Antović
September 25, 2023

Multilevel Grounding develops a new approach to musical meaning—Multilevel-Grounded Semantics, addressing the well- known paradox that music seems full of meaning yet there is little consensus among listeners on what exactly it is that this meaning communicates. Offering a balance between formalist...

Music and Social Inclusion International Research and Practice in Complex Settings

Music and Social Inclusion: International Research and Practice in Complex Settings

1st Edition

Edited By Oscar Odena
December 30, 2022

How do we develop social inclusion through musical activities? What is the power of music in enhancing individual inclusion, group cohesion, and cross-community work in post-conflict environments? How can we investigate social music programmes and interventions? This comprehensive volume offers new...

Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education A Changing Game

Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education: A Changing Game

1st Edition

Edited By Heidi Westerlund, Helena Gaunt
July 25, 2022

This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment of professionalism in music, and how such concepts underpin professional higher music education. There is an urgent imperative to enable the potential of professional musicians in our contemporary societies to be more fully realised,...

The Artist and Academia

The Artist and Academia

1st Edition

Edited By Helen Phelan, Graham F. Welch
March 30, 2022

The Artist and Academia explores the relationship between artistic and academic ways of knowing. Historically, these have often been presented as opposites; the former characterized as passionate and intuitive and the latter portrayed as systematic and rigorous. Recent scholarship presents a more ...

Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation A Study of the ‘Improbasen’ Learning Centre

Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation: A Study of the ‘Improbasen’ Learning Centre

1st Edition

By Guro Gravem Johansen
November 30, 2021

Improbasen is a Norwegian private learning centre that offers beginner's instrumental tuition within jazz improvisation for children between the ages of 7 and 15. This book springs out of a two-year ethnographic study of the teaching and learning activity at Improbasen, highlighting features from ...

Musical Sense-Making Enaction, Experience, and Computation

Musical Sense-Making: Enaction, Experience, and Computation

1st Edition

By Mark Reybrouck
November 30, 2021

Musical Sense-Making: Enaction, Experience, and Computation broadens the scope of musical sense-making from a disembodied cognitivist approach to an experiential approach. Revolving around the definition of music as a temporal and sounding art, it argues for an interactional and experiential ...

Desired Artistic Outcomes in Music Performance

Desired Artistic Outcomes in Music Performance

1st Edition

By Gilvano Dalagna, Sara Carvalho, Graham F. Welch
October 29, 2021

Desired Artistic Outcomes in Music Performance is about empowering musicians to achieve their professional and personal goals in music. The narrative argues that developing musicians should be supported in conceptualizing and achieving their desired artistic outcomes (DAO), as these have been ...

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