Rituals of Creativity: Tradition, Modernity, and the "Acoustic Unconscious" in a U.S. Collegiate Jazz Music Program

American Anthropologist

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-44

  Wilf, Eitan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creativity; Imitation; Intertextuality; Media technologies; Modernity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CREATIVITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; MUSIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

CREATIVENESS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MUSIC; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL CHANGE; STUDENTS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84858675397     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01395.x     Document Type: Article

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