Raymond MacDonald, David J Hargreaves and Dorothy Miell (2017)

Available at:  https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679485.001.0001

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This is my favourite music psychology book so far.  

It is an incredible anthology of chapters covering every facet of musical identity, written by the experts of their fields.

Abstract

This book documents the remakable expansion and growth in the study of musical identities since the publication of our book Musical identities.

We identify three main features of current psychological approaches to musical identities, which concern their definition, development, and the identification of individual differences, as well as four main real-life contexts in which musical identities have been investigated, namely in music and musical institutions, specific geographical communities, education, and in health and well-being.

This conceptual framework provides our rationale for the structure of the Handbook, which is divided into seven main sections.

The first, “Sociological, discursive, and narrative approaches”, includes several general theoretical accounts of musical identities from this perspective, as well as some more specific investigations.

The second and third main sections deal in depth with two of the three psychological topics described above, namely the development of and individual differences in musical identities.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth main sections pursue three of the real-life contexts identified above, namely “Musical institutions and practitioners”, “Education”, and “Health and well-being”.

The seventh and final main section of the Handbook, which we have described as “Case studies”, includes chapters, which look at particular musical identities in specific times, places, or contexts.

The multidisciplinary range and breadth of the Handbook’s contents may well reflect the rapid changes that are taking place in music, in digital technology, and in their role in society as a whole, such that the study of musical identity is likely to proliferate even further in the future.

Preface

Section 1:  Editors’ Introduction

1.  The changing identity of musical identities (David J Hargreaves, Raymond MacDonald, and Dorothy Miell)

Section 2:  Sociological, Discursive, and Narrative Approaches

2. Identities and musics:  reclaiming personhood  (David J Elliott and Marissa Silverman)

3.  Music-ecology and everyday action:  creating, changing and contesting identities  (Tia DeNora)

4.  From small stories:  laying the foundations for narrative identities in and through music  (Margaret S Barrett)

5.  Young people’s musical lives:  learning ecologies, identities, and connectedness  (Susan A O’Neill)

6.  The ear of the beholder:  improvisation, ambiguity, and social contexts in the constructions of musical identities  (Graeme B Wilson and Raymond MacDonald)

7.  Post-national identities in music:  acting in a global intertextual musical arena  (Göran Folkestad)

8.  “Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?”:  identity in popular music  (Andy McKindlay and Chris McVittie)

Section 3:  Development

9.  The musical self:  affections for life in a community of sound  (Colwyn Trevarthen and Stephen Malloch)

10.  Musical identity, interest, and involvement  (Alexandra Lamont)

11.  Building musical self-identity in early infancy  (Johannella Tafuri)

12.  Processes of musical identity consolidation during adolescence  (Paul Evans and Gary E McPherson)

13.  The moving and movement identities of adolescents:  lessons from dance movement psychotherapy in a mainstream secondary school  (Vicky Karkou and Julie Joseph)

Section 4:  Individual Differences

14.  Musical identities, music preferences, and individual differences  (Sebastian P Dys, E Glenn Schellenberg, and Kate C McLean)

15.  From musical experience to musical identity:  musical self-concept as a mediating psychological structure  (Maria B Spychiger)

16.  Defining the musical identity of “non-musicians”  (Nikki S Rickard and TanChyuan Chin)

17.  The social psychology underpinnings of musical identities:  a study on how personality stereotypes are formed from musical cues  (David M Greenberg and Peter J Rentfrow)

18.  Musical identity and individual differences in empathy  (Emery Schubert)

Section 5:  Musical Institutions and Practitioners

19.  Impersonating the music in performance  (John Rink)

20.  Performance identity  (Jane W Davidson)

21.  Imagining identifications:  how musicians align their practices with publics  (Byron Dueck)

22.  Patterns of sociohistorical interaction between musical identity and technology  (Adam Linson)

23.  Who am I?  The process of identity renegotiation for opera choristers following redundancy  (Jane Oakland, Raymond MacDonald, and Paul Flowers)

24.  Re-authoring the self:  therapeutic songwriting in identity work  (Felicity A Baker and Raymond MacDonald)

25.  Staying one step ahead?:  The self-identity of Japanese concern promoters  (Martin Cloonan)

Section 6:  Education

26.  Musical identity, learning, and teaching  (Susan Hallam)

27.  Identity formation and agency in the diverse music classroom  (Heidi Westerlund, Heidi Partti, and Sidsel Karlsen)

28.  Music in identity in adolescence across school transition  (Jennifer E Symonds, Jonathan James Hargreaves, and Marion Long)

29.  Children’s ethnic identities, cultural diversity, and music education  (Beatriz Ilari)

30.  The identities of singers and their educational environments  (Graham F Welch)

31.  Music games and musical identities  (Gianna G Cassidy and Anna M J M Paisley)

Section 7:  Health and Well-Being

32.  Music, identity, and health  (Even Ruud)

33.  Musical identity in fostering emotional health  (Suvi Saarikallio)

34.  Music-making in therapeutic contexts:  reframing identity following disruptions to health  (Wendy L Magee)

35.  Identity and musical development in people with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties  (Adam Ockelford and John Varhaus)

36.  “I would die without my music”:  relying on musical identities to cope with difficult times  (Katrina Skewes McFerran and Cherry Hense)

37.  On musical identities, social pharmacology, and intervention timing in music therapy  (Jörg Fachner, Jaakko Erkkilä, and Olivier Brabant)

Section 8:  Case Studies

38.  The imaginary African race:  race, identity, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (Nicholas Cook)

39.  The identities of Sevda:  from Graeco-Arabic medicine to music therapy  (Nigel Osborne)

40.  Musical identities, resilience, and wellbeing:  the effects of music on displaced children in Colombia  (Gloria P Zapata Restrepo and David J Hargreaves)

41.  Music of Englishness:  national identity and the first folk revival  (Robert Colls and Katie Palmer Heathman)

42.  Sistema Scotland:  emerging musical identities in Big Noise, Raploch  (Kathryn Jourdan and Richard Holloway)

43.  Musical identities in Australia and South Korea and new identities emerging through social media and digital technology  (Myung-Sook Auh and Robert Walker)

44.  Identity, music, and festivity in southern Tunisia  (Alan Karass)