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Group creativity : music, theater, collaboration / R. Keith Sawyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sawyer, R. Keith (Robert Keith)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creative thinking--Social aspects.
- Creative thinking.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Social aspects.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Group problem solving.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
- Summary:
- This bk covers the cognitive process involved in improv. group performance-whether in an art-performace setting or in business& Indust.This bk will find markets in Cog. Sci, Org. Behavior and the performing arts(improvisational theatre, music and dance).
- Contents:
- The Characteristics of Group Creativity 4
- Improvised Versus Structured Performance 13
- Studies of Group Performance 14
- Studies of Creativity in Groups 21
- Moving Forward: The Study of Group Creativity 25
- 2 Jamming in Jazz and Improv Theater 28
- Small-Group Jazz 31
- Improv Theater 33
- The Importance of Group Interaction 37
- Structure and Improvisation 50
- The Audience as Collaborator 68
- 3 Interaction and Emergence: An Interactional Semiotics 74
- Improvisation and Composition 79
- Indexicality and the Poetic Function 82
- A Model of Group Creativity 86
- Indexicality in Musical Ensembles 93
- 4 Group Creativity and the Arts 97
- The Philosophy of Art 98
- Improvisational Theater 101
- Five Characteristics of Improvisation 102
- Toward an Aesthetics of Group Creativity 115
- 5 Group Creativity as Mediated Action 119
- Sociocultural Psychology and Group Creativity 120
- Parallels With Diachronic Creative Interaction 122
- Parallel Dimensions of Synchronic and Diachronic Creative Interaction 125
- 6 Degrees of Improvisation in Group Creativity 138
- Structural Dimensions of Improvisational Performance 140
- Ethnographic Examples of Linguistic Performance 149
- Ethnographic Examples of Musical Performance 153
- 7 Collective Ideation: Creativity, Teamwork, and Collaboration 162
- Implications for Studies of Individual Creativity 165
- Group Creativity in Notated Genres 176
- Collaboration and Teamwork 178.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-204) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 080584435X
- 0805844368
- OCLC:
- 51653225
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