Title: Systemic Creativity: The Partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Abstract: There has been a steady move away from a Romantic view of creativity towards a more rationally based research approach to this topic. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has argued that views of creativity, as an object of research, have needed to make a shift from a Ptolemaic perspective toward a more Copernican one. Others have similarly argued that creativity comes about through the confluence of a set of multiple factors that coalesce in an essentially non-linear system. In attempting to corroborate these ideas, in this paper I present evidence from an historical case study that investigates the collaboration of one the most significant contemporary western song-writing partnerships: John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-11-23
Language: en
Type: article
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