Selected Publications

 
 

MacDonald, R. and  Wilson, G. (2020)  The Art of Becoming: How Group Improvisation Works New York: Oxford University Press. (Link)

MacDonald, R.A.R , Burke, R.L.  De Nora , T,  Sappho Donohue, M.  and  Birrell, R. (2021)  Our Virtual Tribe: Sustaining and Enhancing Community via Online Music Improvisation  Frontiers in Psychology doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.623640 (Free dowload link)

MacDonald, R.A.R. and  Birrell, R.  (2020)  Flattening the curve:  Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s use of virtual improvising to maintain community during COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Studies in Improvisation Vol. 14 No. 2-3  (free download Link)

MacDonald R.A.R  (2021)  The Social Functions of Music:   Communication, Wellbeing, Art, Ritual, Identity and Social Networks (C-WARIS)  New York: Oxford University Press.  In D. Hodges,  A. Creech and S. Hallan  EDS,  Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community,  New York: Routledge 

MacDonald R.A.R  (2021)  Improvisation.  In G. MacPherson Eds The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance New York: Oxford University Press

Oakland, J., & MacDonald R.A.R  (2021)  Identity and the Performing Musician In G. MacPherson Eds The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance New York: Oxford University Press. 

MacDonald R. A.R.  Wilson, G. B., & Baker, F.A., & (in press) Musical Creativity and Wellbeing The Oxford Handbook of the Creative Process in Music New York: Oxford University Press.

MacDonald R.A.R, Miell D & Hargreaves D.J.  EDS (In Press). The Oxford Handbook Of Musical Identities Oxford: Oxford University Press (Link)

MacDonald R.A.R &. Wilson, G.B. (2016).  Billy Connolly, Daniel Barenboim, Willie Wonka, Jazz Bastards And The Universality Of Improvisation In G. Lewis  & Ben Piekut (Eds.),  Oxford Handbook Of Critical Improvisation Studies.  New York: Oxford University Press (Link)

Wilson, G. B., & MacDonald, R. A. R. (2015). Musical Choices During Group Free Improvisation: A Qualitative Psychological Investigation. Psychology Of Music. Doi: 10.1177/0305735615606527 (Link)

MacDonald, R And Wilson, G. (2014) Improvisation, Health And Welling: A Review Psychology Of Well-Being   Psychology Of Well-Being 4(20)   Doi:10.1186/S13612-014-0020-9 (Link)

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