Activating Diverse Musical Creativities - Teaching and Learning in Higher Music Education (Hardcover)

"Activating Diverse Creativities and Entrepreneurship "analyses ways in which music programs in higher education can activate and foster diverse musical creativities, as well as the relationship of musical creativities to entrepreneurship work in higher education teaching and learning practices. These issues are of vital importance to contemporary educational practice and training in both university and conservatoire contexts, particularly with the growing importance of entrepreneurship, defined here as a type of creativity, for successful musicians working in the 21st century creative and cultural industries. International contributors address a broad spectrum of musical creativities in higher education, such as improvisational creativity, empathic creativity and leadership creativity, demonstrating the transformative possibilities of embedding them in the teaching and learning of higher education music. The chapters analyse the active practice of musical creativities in teaching and learning and recognize their mutual dependency. The analysis of the former - teaching for creativity - focuses on higher music education teachers using imaginative approaches in order to make learning more interesting, effective and relevant. The exploration of the latter - learning specific creativities in lively communities within university and conservatoire settings - addresses the issues related to the nurturing and development of students' musical creativities.