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Graham Welch. Established Chair of Music Education at the London University Institute of Education. Deputy Dean of Faculty of Children and Learning at the same university. Elected Chair of the internationally based Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), in the United Kingdom.
His research covers diverse areas: development and musical education, voice and singing sciences, special education and disability. Among his numerous publications we find: Welch, G.F. (2009) 'Ecological validity and impact: key challenges for music education research' published in T.A. Regelski, and J. T. Gates (eds), Music education for changing times: Guiding visions for practice. Dordrecht: Springer; y Welch, G.F y colabs. (2009) ''Sounds of Intent': Mapping musical behaviour and development in children and young people with complex needs', published in Psychology of Music.
Ian Cross. Lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Director of the Faculty’s Center for Music and Science. His research areas are: music, evolution and development; musical and neurosciences perception and cognition. Member of the editorial committee of the magazines Psychology of Music and Music Perception. Is editor of numerous books, among others, the Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology, published in 2008. Among his most recent publications we find: Cross, I. (2010). The evolutionary basis of meaning in music: some neurological and neuroscientific implications, published in Frank Clifford Rose (Ed.), The Neurology of Music. London, Imperial College Press. Cross, I. (2009). Communicative Development: Neonate Crying Reflects Patterns of Native-Language Speech, published in Current Biology. He was member of the executive committee of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of the Music (ESCOM). Currently, he is member of the Wolfson College and of the Committee of the Society of Education, Music and Psychology Research.
Ellen Dissanayake. Affiliate professor at the School of Music, University of Washington. Her specialization field are the temporal arts and the human evolution. Her books -What is art for? (1988), Homo aestheticus: Where art comes from and why (1992), and Art and intimacy: How the arts began (2000)- were published by Washington University Press. Is author of numerous works, among others: Dissanayake, E. (2008). Bodies swayed to music: The temporal arts as integral to ceremonial ritual. Published in S. Malloch, y C. Trevarthen, C. (Eds.), Communicative Musicality: Exploring the Basis of Human Companionship. Oxford: Oxford University Press; y Miall, D. y Dissanayake, E. (2003). The poetics of babytalk. Published in Human Nature. |
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