Faculty of Music

AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice

Mirjam James: Research Associate II (Qualitative Methods)

Email: mj386@cam.ac.uk

Mirjam’s interest in the CMPCP project stems from her current research on group communication and rehearsal strategies of professional instrumentalists and singers. She started the research when employed as Acting Professor at Bremen University, during which the theoretical background, data collection, and first analyses were completed; initial results were presented at the annual conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM) in September 2009 and at the conference ‘Music, Identity and Social Interaction’ in Manchester (February 2010). Her published research has so far concentrated on instrumentalists (mainly string quartets and vocal ensembles); she herself is a cellist and a singer. Her PhD research was published in 2007 as a monograph entitled Schnittmuster. Affektive Reaktionen auf variierte Bildschnitte bei Musikvideos (Münster: Lit-Verlag).