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Systemic Creativity: The Partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney

2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/08145857.2011.596142

1949-453X

Phillip McIntyre,

Diverse Musicological Studies

There has been a steady move away from a Romantic view of creativity towards a more rationally based research approach to this topic. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has argued that views of creativity, as an object of research, have needed to make a shift from a Ptolemaic perspective toward a more Copernican one. Others have similarly argued that creativity comes about through the confluence of a set of multiple factors that coalesce in an essentially non-linear system. In attempting to corroborate these ideas, in this paper I present evidence from an historical case study that investigates the collaboration of one the most significant contemporary western song-writing partnerships: John Lennon and Paul McCartney.