Midlife creativity and identity: life into art
- Submitting institution
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University of Bedfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 7819153
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- ISBN
- 9781787543348
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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8 - RIMAP - Research Institute for Media, Art and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book explores artistic routines and inspirations of middle-aged amateur and professional musicians, fine artists, and literary authors in the UK. Drawing on extensive ethnographic data, it posits that creative life is driven by the pursuit of the ‘mezzanine’, an in-between ‘state’ where boundless possibility serves as resistance and antidote to the banal realities of midlife. It presents the data thematically (music, art, writing), via exploration of biography, self-identity, inspiration, sociality, beliefs, emotion, career trajectory and life choices, considered via the practices of rehearsal, performance, exhibition, and choices of working environment, that contribute to meaningful creation of novelty.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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