This book creates a platform for music educators to share their experience and expertise in creative music teaching and learning with the international community. It presents research studies and practices that are original and representative of music education in the Japanese, Asian and international communities. It also collects substantial literature on music education research in Japan and other Asian societies, enabling English-speaking readers to access excellent research and practical experiences in non-English societies.

Part 1 Everyday Creativity in Music Education.- 1 Creativity and Music Education: A State of Art reflection.- 2 Learner agency in musical creative process and learning.- 3 Soundscape, sound education and the grain of the music: Experiencing the luminousness of music being what it is.- 4 Exploring children's creative musical conversations using the tambourine.- 5 Discovering young children's musical creativity in their everyday life.- 6 Ideas of creative music education.- Part 2 Creative Music Education with Social-cultural and Historical/Traditional Perspectives.- 7 Creativity and embodiment in pre-modern Japan and Twenty-first century (North) America.- 8 Creativity in music education from 1890s to 1930s in Japan.- 9 Rethinking Takemitsu through creative music activities: Application of the materials in his piano music.- 10 Understanding and creating music.- 11 Facilitation-based distributed creativity: The Inari chorus performance at the Itoshima international art festival.- 12 Creativity, change in music culture, and what children's song should be.- Part 3 Reviews of Practice and Research in Music Education.- 13 The challenge of teaching creativity in school music education in Mainland China.- 14 Do you like music as the subject at school? Creativity in self-regulated learning and motivation in music education.- 15 Teaching strategies, knowledge, higher-order thinking skills and creative musical product in music improvisation.- 16 Creativity in the Japanese national curriculum for music.- 17 Developing in musical performance: An analysis of famous musicians' autobiographies.- 18 Teaching music in the early childhood classroom for convergent creativity: Views from metasynthesis.- 19 Creativity in Music Education: moving forward.