Schizophrenia Behind the Great Jazz

DOI

10.2991/iciap-18.2019.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Buddy Bolden, Tom Harrell, schizophrenia, jazz, improvisation

Abstract

Charles “Buddy” Bolden's schizophrenia forced him to play his cornet through improvisation. From that, a new genre of music was born in 1917, known today as jazz. Tom Harrell, a well-known and award-winning jazz musician in the 1970s, also had schizophrenia. Speculations arose about how schizophrenia might contribute to their creativity and finesse in playing music, specifically jazz. By analyzing their cases and stories and reviewing theories and research on schizophrenia and music, this article provides an alternative scientific explanation of how such speculation can be true. This rather new and different perspective on schizophrenia as a severe psychological disorder then might shift people’s negative stigma of schizophrenics.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Hersa Aranti
AU  - Elizabeth Kristi Poerwandari
AU  - Agustin Sukarlan Basri
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - Schizophrenia Behind the Great Jazz
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 318
EP  - 328
SN  - 2352-5398
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