Please join us on Wednesday, October 23 at 12:00 PM (ET) for the first event in the 2024–2025 SOAN Seminar Series: “Deference Rituals and Creative Buzz: Theorizing the Creative Trajectories of Songs and Songwriters” with Taylor Price.
This presentation will take place in person inside MCKN 621 at the University of Guelph (6th floor, next to the elevators). The event is free and open to everybody!
Taylor Price will dive into the dynamics of culture creation in songwriting teams, exploring how cognition, interaction, and relationships shape the creative process. Drawing from his ethnographic observations in music studios and interviews with music producers, he will discuss the social interactions that drive both the linear and nonlinear paths of creativity.
Taylor Price is a postdoctoral fellow in New York University’s Department of Sociology. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, where he wrote a dissertation exploring how cognition, interaction, and relationships facilitate culture creation in songwriting teams. His postdoctoral research draws on ethnographic observations in music studios and interviews with music producers to understand how social interactions facilitate the linear and nonlinear dimensions of the creative process. Beyond his research on creative situations, he has also written about cultural consecration, knowledge production, and qualitative social research methods.
For more information, contact Prof. Mervyn Horgan ([email protected]).