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Life as a music psychology academic
This week I had a nice email from a chap called Thomas who lives in the US. Thomas is considering a career in music psychology and was asking, as many do, about what my day job is really like. I have written a blog before about how to prepare for a music psychology master course. I have also written a little piece on the types of job you might go on to enjoy once you have finished. But Thomas wanted to know a bit more about the other end of the road – what is it like to be a music psychology academic (lecturer). So this is the subject of…
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Music and memory; structure, function and survival
Hello Dear Reader, Today will not be a blog in the traditional sense, but instead I would like to give you access to a link for a lecture of mine that was just finished a few weeks ago. It is an online accessible discussion of what I find fascinating about musical memory. It covers 3 main areas: 1) Is musical memory unique? (i.e. how is it different to other types of memory, such as verbal memory?) 2) How does musical memory work? (i.e. how do musicians remember hours of music for performance) 3) What happens when memory begins to fail, and why does musical memory often survive so well in…
