This paper interrogates the term ‘creativity’ in musical performance, and seeks to demonstrate that performative creativity has been too readily connected to ‘innovation’ to the detriment of the more practical notion of ‘craft’. This division perpetuates a binary of the perceived creative affordances of improvisation and notated performance. I propose that a diametrically opposed reading of these two activities is rather narrow, and that instead, the performance of both notated and improvised music is a more mixed economy. Against this backdrop I present narratives from performers, examining how their understandings of creativity in performance are constructed according to different contexts.
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