Handbook of Musical Identities

• Editors' Introduction


• 1: David Hargreaves, Raymond MacDonald and Dorothy Miell: The changing identity of musical identities


• Sociological, discursive and narrative approaches


• 2: David Elliott and Marissa Silverman: Identities and musics: Reclaiming personhood


• 3: Tia deNora: Music-ecology and everyday action: Creating, changing and contesting identities


• 4: Margaret S. Barrett: Laying the foundations for narrative identities in and through music


• 5: Susan O'Neill: Young people's musical lives: Identities, learning ecologies and connectedness


• 6: Graeme Wilson and Raymond MacDonald: The ear of the beholder: Improvisation, ambiguity and social contexts in the constructions of musical identities


• 7: Göran Folkestad: Post-national identities in music: Acting in a global intertextual musical arena


• 8: Andy McKinlay and Chris McVittie: 'Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?': Identity in popular music


• Development


• 9: Colwyn Trevarthen and Stephen Malloch: The musical self: Affections for life in a community of sound


• 10: Alexandra Lamont: Musical identity, interest, and involvement


• 11: Johannella Tafuri: Building musical self-identity in early infancy


• 12: Paul Evans and Gary McPherson: Processes of musical identity consolidation during adolescence


• 13: Vicky Karkou and Julie Joseph: The moving and movement identities of adolescents: lessons from dance movement psychotherapy in mainstream schools


• Individual differences


• 14: Sebastian Dys, Glenn Schellenberg and Kate McLean: Musical identities, music preferences, and individual differences


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

Raymond MacDonald is Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation and Head of The School of Music at University of Edinburgh. He runs music workshops and lectures internationally and has published over 70 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. He has co-edited four texts, Musical Identities (2002), Musical Communication (2005), Musical Imaginations (2012) and Music Health & Wellbeing (2012) and was editor of the journal Psychology of Music between 2006 and 2012. His on-going research focuses on issues relating to improvisation, musical communication, music health and wellbeing, music education and musical identities. As a saxophonist and composer he is a founding member of The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and has released over 60 CDs. Collaborating with musicians such as David Byrne, George Lewis, Evan Parker, Jim O'Rourke and Marilyn Crispell he has toured and broadcast worldwide and has written music for film, television, theatre, radio and art installations.


David Hargreaves is Professor of Education and Froebel Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, and has previously held posts in the Schools of Psychology and Education at the Universities of Leicester, Durham and the Open University. He has been Editor of Psychology of Music, Chair of the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME), and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His books, in psychology, education, the arts, and music have been translated into 15 languages. He has appeared on BBC TV and radio as a jazz pianist and composer, and is organist on his local village church circuit.

Dorothy Miell is Professor of Social Psychology based at the University of Edinburgh where she is also Vice Principal and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She has worked on issues of identity, relationships and communication as they apply