Transition to sustainability is a process that requires change on all levels of society from the
physical to the psychological. This review takes an interdisciplinary view of the landscapes …

The overall purpose of this article is to provide a convenient summary of empirical research
on improvisation in general music education and thereby provide guidance to researchers …

Improvisation is ubiquitous in life. It deserves, we suggest, to occupy a more central role in
cognitive science. In the current paper, we take the case of jazz improvisation as a rich …

In this paper, we report on a qualitative study based on the “Meet4Music”(M4M) project
recently developed at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. M4M is a …

Embodied approaches to cognition conceive of mental life as emerging from the ongoing
relationship between neural and extra-neural resources. The latter include, first and …

Current research in the neuroscience of musical creativity reveals promising implications for
the value of learning to improvise. This article outlines the neuroscientific literature on …

This article explores how the participatory field can complement and enhance even
successful music education programs. The participatory field, part of Thomas Turino's four …

In this contribution, we draw on findings from a non-formal, community music project to
elaborate on the relationship between the concept of eudaimonia, as defined by Seligman …

Many people have become disengaged from music making owing to the commercialization
and commodification of music practices. This chapter examines a distinctive response to that …

The purpose of the study was to investigate undergraduate music education majors'
confidence in teaching improvisation, according to the NAfME (1994) K–12 Achievement …