Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills: Research in the Western Balkans and Western Europe - cover image

Copyright

Blanka Bogunović; Renee Timmers; Sanela Nikolić. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).

Published On

2024-06-20

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-218-1
Hardback978-1-80511-219-8
PDF978-1-80511-220-4
HTML978-1-80511-223-5
EPUB978-1-80511-221-1

Language

  • English

Print Length

428 pages (xxviii+400)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 30 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.18" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 34 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.34" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback809g (28.54oz)
Hardback987g (34.82oz)

Media

Illustrations13
Tables16

THEMA

  • AVA
  • JMB
  • GTM

BIC

  • JHMC
  • JMAN
  • 1DD
  • AVA

BISAC

  • MUS015000
  • PSY030000
  • MUS000000
  • SOC053000
  • LAN004000

Keywords

  • Psychology of Music
  • Western Balkans
  • Music Appreciation
  • Aesthetic Experiences
  • Performance Skills
  • Music preferences
  • Music perception and cognition
  • Musicians’ personality, motivation and well-being
  • Western Europe
  • Music education and expertise
  • Creative, Performance and Listening Skills
  • Musical audiences
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Socio-cultural context

Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills

Research in the Western Balkans and Western Europe

Psychology of Music is a flourishing area of research in the Western Balkans. However, much of its findings and insights have remained relatively unknown outside the region. Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills features recent research from the Western Balkans, foregrounding its specific topics, methods, and influences, and bringing it into productive conversation with complementary research from Western Europe and further afield.

The essays in this collection investigate the psychology of listening and performance and their relevance to music practice. Employing a range of research methodologies, they address divergent themes, from a cross-cultural understanding of aesthetic experiences and innovations to attract new audiences, to developmental perspectives on musical growth and the challenges of mastering performance skills. Authors reflect independently and collaboratively on how these psychological processes are shaped by the different traditions and geopolitical conditions inside and outside the Western Balkans. The result is a volume that emphasizes how musical experiences and practices happen not in isolation but in socio-cultural environments that contribute to their definition. This work will appeal to musicians, music educators, students, researchers, and psychologists with an interest in the psychology of music and exemplify ways forward in decolonizing academia.

Endorsements

This book shows that a comprehensive understanding of music appreciation and performance is possible only by integrating perspectives from different geographical regions and musical cultures. The discussion is wide ranging but broadly accessible, and should be of interest to readers from all corners of music psychology.

Dr Laura Bishop

RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (IMV) , Norway

Contents

1. Introduction: Music Psychology Research in the Western Balkans and Western Europe

(pp. 1–24)
  • Sanela Nikolić
  • Renee Timmers
  • Blanka Bogunović

2. The Role of Affective Dimensions in the Aesthetic Experience of Music

(pp. 27–46)
  • Dragan Janković
  • Maja Mađarev

3. Aesthetic Experiences of Contemporary Music from the Perspectives of a Composer, a Performer, and a Musicologist

(pp. 47–72)
  • Sanela Nikolić
  • Ivana Miladinović Prica

4. Aesthetic Emotions in Music: Theory, Measurements, and Cross-cultural Comparison

(pp. 73–96)
  • Scott Bannister
  • Renee Timmers
  • Thomas M. Lennie

5. Sound Experience and Imagination at Early School Age: An Opportunity for Unleashing Children’s Creative Potential

(pp. 99–122)
  • Mirsada Zećo
  • Marina Videnović
  • Lejla Silajdžić

6. Adolescent Musical Preferences and their Relationship with Schwartz’s Basic Values

(pp. 123–142)
  • Ivana Stepanović Ilić
  • Marina Videnović
  • Zora Krnjaić
  • Ksenija Krstić

7. How Professional Musicians Can Better Connect to Audiences for Live Classical Music: Assessing Theory And Practice in the Light of the COVID-19 Crisis

(pp. 143–162)
  • John Sloboda

8. Influences of Physical and Imagined Others in Music Students’ Experiences of Practice and Performance

(pp. 165–188)
  • Andrea Schiavio
  • Renee Timmers
  • Henrique Meissner

9. 4E Music Cognition in Theory and Practice

(pp. 189–210)
  • Andrea Schiavio
  • Dylan van der Schyff

10. Memorisation of Twentieth-Century Piano Music: A Longitudinal Case Study

(pp. 211–230)
  • Valnea Žauhar
  • Igor Bajšanski
  • Dunja Crnjanski

11. Memory for Music: Research and Practice for Performers

(pp. 231–252)
  • Jane Ginsborg

12. Motivation and Personality as Factors of Musical Accomplishments: A Developmental and Cultural Perspective

(pp. 255–280)
  • Blanka Bogunović

13. The Lived Experience of Radical Acceleration in the Biographical Narratives of Exceptionally Gifted Adult Musicians

(pp. 281–304)
  • Olja Jovanović Milanović
  • Ana Altaras Dimitrijević
  • Dejana Mutavdžin
  • Blanka Bogunović

14. The Personality of Music Students with Diverse Vocal and Instrumental Skills

(pp. 305–322)
  • Ana Butković

15. Theoretical and Practical Challenges in Dealing with Music Performance Anxiety

(pp. 323–350)
  • Katarina Habe
  • Michele Biasutti

16. How do European and Western Balkans Conservatoires Help Music Students with their Health and Well-being?

(pp. 351–370)
  • Raluca Matei
  • Jane Ginsborg

17. Conclusion: Progressing the State of the Art of Music Psychology

(pp. 371–386)
  • Renee Timmers
  • Blanka Bogunović
  • Sanela Nikolić

Contributors

Blanka Bogunović

(editor)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-8389
https://www.fmu.bg.ac.rs/en/

Blanka Bogunović holds a PhD in psychology and a BA in music performance (Flute). She is affiliated as a Full Professor of Psychology and Education Science at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade and is a guest lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade and Music Academy, University of Sarajevo. Her research interests are the motivation and personality of the musically gifted; specialist music education; music performance skills and expertise; and creative processes in making music. She is (co)author of five books and many articles and chapters related to her research interests. She is an ESCOM EC member, ESCOM representative for Serbia, originator of the PAM-IE Conference, and co-founder and coordinator of the Regional Network Psychology and Music (RNPaM).

Renee Timmers

(editor)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1981-0834
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music

Renee Timmers is Professor of Psychology of Music at the University of Sheffield. Her research concerns the expressive performance of music; music, emotion, and health; and multimodal and embodied experiences of music. She has co-edited two volumes published by Oxford University Press (Expressiveness in music performance; Together in music) and two by Routledge (Routledge companion to music cognition; Sound teaching). She directs the research centre ‘Music Mind Machine’ in Sheffield and is past-President of ESCOM.

Sanela Nikolić

(editor)
Associate Professor at University of Arts in Belgrade
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-9317
https://www.fmu.bg.ac.rs/en/

Sanela Nikolić has a PhD in Theory of Arts and Media and is an Associate Professor of Applied Aesthetics at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade. She is the editor of the AM Journal of Art and Media Studies and was the International Association for Aesthetics Delegate-at-Large (2019–22). She is the author of the two books. Her fields of interest include avant-garde art schools and practices; applied aesthetics as a critical history of the humanities; interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in the humanities; and digital humanities. She is a member of the Regional Network Psychology and Music (RNPaM).