- Title
- Systemic creativity: the partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney
- Creator
- McIntyre, Phillip
- Relation
- Musicology Australia Vol. 33, Issue 2, p. 241-254
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2011.596142
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- John Lennon; Paul McCartney; creativity; song-writing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1050945
- Identifier
- uon:15226
- Identifier
- ISSN:0814-5857
- Language
- eng
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