Dual-process contributions to creativity in jazz improvisations: An SPM-EEG study

Dual-process contributions to creativity in jazz improvisations: An SPM-EEG study

Conflicting theories identify creativity either with frontal-lobe mediated (Type-2) executive control processes or (Type-1) associative processes that…

American Jazz and Freedom

by Marie T. Sullivan This is a true story about a boy who realized his dream. Gregory (not his real name) was born in the fabled historic province of Transylvania, in Romania. One afternoon when he was about ten years of age, he was alone in the family’s modest home. His mother was at work. His father was in the United States, having fled here to earn money as a professional musician and send it home to the family. There was a sharp knock at the…

The father grew up in the city. In the corner house Rudolf-Biebl-/Ignaz-Harrer-Straße. He never told much about the war he lived through as an HJ-boy. Except from the day of liberation, when the Americans of Freilassing invaded Salzburg. Even before the father saw the American tanks