Midlife Creativity and Identity by Philip Miles
This book explores the artistic routines and inspirations of amateur and professional musicians, fine artists and literary authors experiencing midlife. Based on ethnographic insight, it argues that creativity is driven by the pursuit of a 'mezzanine' in-between state where the anarchy of possibility is an antidote to the realities of middle age.
Miles introduces, investigates, and explains creative processes through the lives, work, and subjectivities of 10 people generating music, art, and literature for public consumption, all entering or experiencing middle-age and living in EnglishHe covers lost in space: music and aura; music, sociality, and identity; the subterranean river; down in the woods; inspired by the sea; living a dream and dreaming a living; shifting rhythms and a sense of purpose; the mezzanine and midlife creativity; and Monday afternoon and the millennium. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *
Philip Miles is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. His research interests are within cultural sociology and include cultural materialism, popular music, art and creativity, performance, authorial routines and a contemporary focus on the sociology of English Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787543362 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787543366 |
| Title | Midlife Creativity and Identity |
| Author | Philip Miles |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited |
| Year published | 2020-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
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