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ICMPC 12 Day 2: Afternoon talks
The afternoon of the second full day at ICMPC saw a session entitled ‘Listener Perspectives’ chaired by Alex Lamont. The session featured two talks, one from John Sloboda and Melissa Dobson (sadly Mel was not here) and one from Amanda Krause who is working with Adrian North. Both talks shed new light on the world of the music listener, the first from the concert perspective and the second from the everyday music user. John is, as you can imagine, is an extremely experienced presenter and as usual both his diction and tone did not disappoint. It is a very relaxing feeling to be in the presence of such control and…
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ICMPC 12 Day 2: Morning posters part II
The second poster session in the morning of Day 2 was entitled ‘Musical experience and Commuication’ and featured 5 talks that looked at appreciation for music and musical role models as well as positive psychological impacts of musical activities such as dance and karaoke. I will go through an outline of their presentation combined with information that I gained either from attending the poster or from the abstracts book. Needless to say the ‘Hips don’t lie’ poster was hard to get near on the day! (earworm anyone?) The first presentation was given by Cynthia Patel (University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA) and considered adolescent girls responses to three songs from three…