Music and mind in everyday life

The British Journal of Music Education It covers considerable ground most elegantly and picks out key topics as sites of debate and future research this book will be invaluable to scholars working across a number of disciplines.

<br>Eric Clarke is Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. He has published on topics including the psychology of performance, the perception and production of musical rhythm, 6music and meaning, music and ecological theory, and the impact of recording on listening. He is the author of Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning (OUP, 2005) and is co-editor (with Nicholas Cook) of Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects. <br>Dr. Nicola Dibben is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield. Her research is in the broad area of music, mind and culture. She has published numerous articles on music cognition and emotion, representations of gender in music, and popular music and has a book forthcoming in 2009 on the popular musician Bjork. <br>Dr. Stephanie Pitts is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield. She has research interests in music education and psychology, and is the author of two books including Valuing Musical Participation (2005), a study of adults' amateur involvement in music.<br>

1. Music in people's lives; MAKING MUSIC; 2. Motivations and skills; 3. Expression and communication in performance; 4. Improvising and composing; USING MUSIC; 5. Hearing and listening; 6. Individuals using music; 7. Groups using music; ACQUIRING MUSIC; 8. Lifelong musical development; 9. Contexts for learning; 10. The psychology of music - an overview