Born and made: Musical experts are no geniuses

TY - GEN

T1 - Born and made: Musical experts are no geniuses

AU - Hansen, Niels Christian

PY - 2016/10/6

Y1 - 2016/10/6

N2 - The admirable skills of highly proficient musicians continue to mesmerise their fans, luring them from the safety of comfortable armchairs into unchartered territories of distant music venues that are sometimes only accessible through considerable travel and financial sacrifices. This phenomenon in itself makes musical expertise a natural object of scientific enquiry, leading to heated debates typically revolving around a central nature/nurture dichotomy. In an informative overview in this newsletter, Solange Glasser illustrates how this debate has persistently called for “solutions” and “answers” (e.g., Goldhaber, 2012), yet remains unsolved and unanswered.

AB - The admirable skills of highly proficient musicians continue to mesmerise their fans, luring them from the safety of comfortable armchairs into unchartered territories of distant music venues that are sometimes only accessible through considerable travel and financial sacrifices. This phenomenon in itself makes musical expertise a natural object of scientific enquiry, leading to heated debates typically revolving around a central nature/nurture dichotomy. In an informative overview in this newsletter, Solange Glasser illustrates how this debate has persistently called for “solutions” and “answers” (e.g., Goldhaber, 2012), yet remains unsolved and unanswered.

M3 - Letter/comments/debate

VL - 4

SP - 4

EP - 5

BT - Australian Music & Psychology Society Newsletter

PB - Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS)

CY - Sydney, Australia

ER -