ICME

Vol. 11 of the “International Journal of Creativity in Music Education” has recently been published, with the electronic version available since September 2024. The special issue focuses on “Creative Music Making and Improvisation,” highlighting the importance of improvisation in a wide variety of musical traditions around the world. The issue explores ‘improvisation’ from several perspectives, a concept which is often overlooked in everyday music lessons.
The Institute of Creativity in Music Education publishes this journal annually and organizes online research presentations every two months.　Additionally, the institute holds face-to-face workshops once or twice a year. The photograph shown on first page of this journal is from a workshop in the summer of 2023, which was well-received, featuring Japanese researchers and musicians from Africa, who participated in improvisational activities.
To date, the journal has reached over 5,000 readers in more than 60 countries. We hope that with the publication of this volume, our readership will continue to grow.
The interest we have received is testimony to the growing importance of creativity in music education as a crucial component of music class lessons.

International Journal of Creativity in Music Education vol.11

https://www.icme.jp/en/jcme/

Yukiko Tsubonou

Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Creativity in Music Education(JCME)
Director of the Institute of Creativity in Music Education (ICME)

Call for Papers and Workshop plan

The International Journal of Creativity in Music Education vol.10 is published as a Web-journal. Institute of Creativity in Music Education is now accepting papers concerning the topic below.

1. Special Issue of Vol.10:
Expanding the Reach of Creative Music
The Creative Music Activities introduced by this Institute have included a wide variety of examples of creative music making. For example, the participants have ranged from young children to pupils of various school levels, to the elderly and those with special needs. There are also numerous genres of music, for example, classical music, Japanese children’s songs and traditional music, popular music such as J-POP, many kinds of  world music and contemporary music.
In this volume, we would like to include research that further expands creative music making and examples of the importance of creativity in music education will be  illustrated.

2. Papers not concerned with the special issue are also being accepted by the journal. 

3. Workshop plans about Creative Music Activity are also welcome. They will not be reviewed by referees, but the decision for acceptance will be made by the editorial committee.

4. The deadline for submission is 31^st January 2023.
The requests for submission should be sent using the form included in the link below.

https://www.icme.jp/en/form/

5. The Submission Guideline
For further information about submissions, please see the Submission Guideline below.

https://www.icme.jp/en/contributions/

Yukiko Tsubonou
Editor-in-chief
Executive Director, Institute of Creativity in Music Education
Professor emeritus, Japan Women’s University