Changing Forms of Musical Creativity

Question 1

What is soundcloud?

Answer 1

An online platform for creators to share compositions/recordings (often demo or draft versions of songs that they have recorded)

Form of digital media which enables new genres of music to evolve

Can showcase creativity

Question 2

How does soundcloud work?

Answer 2

Comments are posted by both creators and other users

Can build up layers

Can laminate performance (creators and other users can build up a set of comments about this)

Question 3

What did Folkestad (1996) argue?

Answer 3

We all have a personal inner music library

We are creative listeners

We have a mental representation of all music heard or exposed to a lot

We evaluate new music against our inner musical library/mental representation of all music heard in the past

Question 4

How can we be creative in the way that we listen to music? (Hargreaves et al., 2011)

Answer 4

We listen in different ways

We pick out certain features of the music

We guess who the composers or performers are or when the song was recorded/written

We try and identify a particular style/genre of the music

Question 5

What did Mito (2007) do in their study on creative listening?

Answer 5

Got experts and novices to listen to Japanese pop songs

Listened in very different ways

Experts picked out certain elements in the music and were able to pick out certain elements from other pieces that they knew from Japanese pop. Listened in a different way to the novices.

This superiority of the expert’s response to music DISAPPEARED with other genres/other cultural traditions. They weren’t listening in the same way as they did with the Japanese music. They picked out the same things as the novices.

To-do with the habitus that they are immersed in.