Below you’ll find some resources I like. By no means are these lists comprehensive. There are many more items I could’ve put in each. But these are some of my favorites and some of the most interesting ones.
Books I Recommend
- Books about Music
- Songs in Their Heads: Music and its Meaning in Children’s Lives, by Patricia Shehan Campbell
- Music and Mind in Everyday Life, by Eric Clarke, Nicola Dibben & Stephanie Pitts
- Music as Social Life, by Thomas Turino
- Free to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music, by Lee Higgins & Patricia Shehan Campbell
- Valuing Musical Participation, by Stephanie Pitts
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks
- How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education, by Lucy Green
- Trade Books Dealing with Psychology/Sociology
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How, by Daniel Coyle
- Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
- My Life as an Experiment, by A. J. Jacobs
- Research Handbooks and Edited Collections
- Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology, ed. by Susan Hallam, Ian Cross & Michael Thaut
- Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications, ed. by Patrik N. Juslin & John Sloboda
- The Child As Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development, ed. by Gary McPherson
- Musical Identities, ed. by Raymond MacDonald, David Hargreaves & Dorothy Miell
- Musical Excellence: Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance, ed. by Aaron Williamon
- Bridging the Gap: Popular Music and Music Education, ed. by Carlos Xavier Rodriguez
Websites I Visit
- Musicovery
- Smithsonian Folkways
- The Psych Files
- Mind Over Music
- The Musician’s Way Blog
- Jazz on the Tube
- Project Implicit
- Social Psychology Network
- Paul Ekman (expert on facial expression of emotion)
Publications I Read
- Music Educators Journal
- Psychology of Music
- Music Education Research
- Making Music Magazine
- International Journal of Community Music
- Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education
Researchers I Admire
- This list especially is incomplete, as there are many more I could include. But here are some…
- Carlos Abril
- Randall Allsup
- Patricia Shehan Campbell
- Jane Davidson
- Robert Duke
- David Hargreaves
- Patrick Juslin
- Andreas Lehmann
- Marie McCarthy
- Gary McPherson
- Susan O’Neill
- Sandra Trehub
- John Sloboda
Organizations I Like
- International Society for Music Education
- American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- The GRAMMY Foundation
- Society for Music Perception and Cognition
- MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Social Causes (with Musician Connections) I Support
