The interdisciplinary study of creativity in performance

Journal/Book: Creativity Res J. 1998; 11: 10 Industrial Ave, Mahwah, NJ 07430-2262. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc. 11-19.

Abstract: Creativity researchers have tended to neglect the creativity of performance in music, theater, and ritual. But several other disciplines have analyzed the creativity of performance, including folkloristics, ethnomusicology, and linguistic anthropology. In this article, I summarize recent developments in these and other fields and suggest how these fields are beginning to come together in a truly interdisciplinary study of performance creativity. Psychology can draw on research in these disciplines as it begins to extend creativity theory to the study of performance creativity. These other disciplines can, in turn, benefit from relevant research in the psychology of creativity. The interdisciplinary study of performance is a case study of how interdisciplinarity can benefit psychology more generally, as performance research touches on many issues that are central in current psychological theory-the relation between behavior and context, the influence of social groups and cultural situations, and the importance of events and actions as units of analysis.

Note: Article Sawyer RK, Washington Univ, Dept Educ, Campus Box 1183, St Louis,MO 63130 USA

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