Dr Nicola Dibben - Publications
Books
Clarke, E., Dibben, N. & Pitts, S. 2010. Music and Mind in Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dibben, N. 2009. Björk. London: Equinox Press. (Also Indiana University Press).
Book Chapters
Dibben, N. & Haake, A.B. (forthcoming 2011). Music and the construction of space in office-based work settings. In Music, Sound, and the Transformation of Public and Private Space. Ed. G. Born & T.Rice, Cambridge University Press.
Cook, N. & Dibben, N. 2010. Emotion in culture and history: perspectives from musicology. In Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications. Ed. Patrik .A. Juslin & John A. Sloboda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.45-72. (Later version of Cook and Dibben 2001).
Dibben, N. 2009. Vocal performance and the projection of emotional authenticity. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology. Ed. Derek B. Scott. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 317-334.
Dibben, N. 2003. Musical materials, meaning and perception. In The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction eds. Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton. New York & London: Routledge, pp.193-203.
Dibben, N. 2002. Gender identity and music. In Musical Identities Eds. Raymond MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves and Dorothy Miell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.117-133.
Cook, N. & Dibben, N. 2001. Musicological approaches to emotion. In Music and Emotion: Theory and Research Eds. P. Juslin & J. Sloboda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.45-70. (Reprinted as a new version in 2010 – see above).
Dibben, N. 2001. Pulp, pornography and spectatorship: subject matter and subject position in Pulp's 'This is Hardcore'. In Critical Essays in Popular Musicology Ed. Allan Moore. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Refereed Journal Articles
Dibben, N. 2009. Nature and Nation: National Identity and Environmentalism in Icelandic Popular Music Video and Music Documentary. Ethnomusicology Forum, Screened Music: Global Perspectives, 18, 1, 131-151.
Dibben, N. & Williamson, V. 2007. An exploratory survey of in-vehicle music listening. Psychology of Music, 35, 571-589, 2007 (published August 16 2007 online)
Dibben, N. 2006. Subjectivity and the construction of emotion in the music of Björk. Music Analysis, 25, 1-2, 171-197.
Dibben, N. 2006. The socio-cultural and learning experiences of music students in a British University, British Journal of Music Education, 23, 1, 91-116.
Powell, J. & Dibben, N. 2005. Key-mood association: A self-perpetuating myth. Musicae Scientiae, 9, 2, 289-312.
Dibben, N. 2004. The role of peripheral feedback in emotional experience with music. Music Perception, 22, 1, 79-116.
Dibben, N. 2004. How is the War on Iraq relevant to teaching and learning in Higher Education in the UK? Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 9, 2, 247-252.
Dibben, N. 2002. Constructions of femininity in 1990's Girl Group music. Feminism and Psychology Special issue: "Crossing the gender divide: Feminist perspectives on gender and music”. 12, 2, 168-175.
Dibben, N. 2001. What do we hear when we hear music? Music perception and musical material. Musicae Scientiae, “Perspectives on musical meaning”, 5, 2, 161-194.
Lamont, A. & Dibben, N. 2001. Motivic structure and the perception of similarity. Music Perception, 18, 3, 245-274. http://www.catchword.com/ucp/07307829/v18n3/contp1-1.htm
Dibben, N. 2001. Pulp, pornography and spectatorship: subject matter and subject position in Pulp's 'This is Hardcore'. Journal of the Royal Music Association, 126, 1, 83-106. Also online at http://www3.oup.co.uk/roymus/hdb/Volume_126/Issue_01/pdf/1260083.pdf. Reprinted in Critical Essays in Popular Musicology Ashgate Press, 2007 (see above).
Dibben, N. & Windsor, W.L. 2001. Constructivism in Nicholas Cook’s introduction to music: tips for a ‘new’ psychology of music. Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 2, pp.43-50.
Clarke, E.F. & Dibben, N. 2000. Sex, Pulp and Critique. Popular Music, 19, 2, 231-241.
Dibben, N. 2000. The sound of 'Synthetic Fury': Dance music, machines and masculinity. Review of Popular Culture, 11, 1, 75-84.
Dibben, N. 1999. Representations of femininity in popular music. Popular Music, 18, 3, 331-355.
Dibben, N. 1999. The perception of structural stability in atonal music: the influence of salience, stability, horizontal motion, pitch commonality and dissonance" Music Perception, 16, 3, 265-294.
Dibben, N. 1994. The cognitive reality of hierarchic structure in tonal and atonal music. Music Perception, 12, (1), 1-25.
Encyclopedia Entries
Dibben, N. 2001. Psychology of Music. Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.1010-1013.
Reviews
Dibben, N. 2004. Review of Lawrence Zbikowski Conceptualising Music. Music Theory Online, 10, 4. http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.04.10.4/mto.04.10.4.dibben.html
Dibben, N. 2004. Review essay of Stan Hawkins Settling the Pop Score: Pop texts and identity politics. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2002; Sheila Whiteley Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity. London & New York: Routledge, 2000. Twentieth Century Music, 1, 1, 135-138.
Dibben, N. 2004. Review of Allan Moore Analyzing Popular Music. British Journal of Music Education, 21, 1, 132-134.
Dibben, N. 2004. Review of Julian Johnson Who Needs Classical Music? Popular Music, 23, 2, 227-228.
Dibben, N. 2002. Review of David Brackett, Interpreting Popular Music. [Berkeley and London: University of California Press: 2000]. Popular Music, 21, 1, 143-5.
Dibben, N. 2002. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. Ed. S. Frith, W. Straw and John Street. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. European Journal of Communication, 17, 2, 262-264.
Dibben, N. 2001. Review of Kai Fikentscher, “You Better Work!”: Underground Dance Music in New York City. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 2000. The World of Music, 43 (2+3), 245-247.
Dibben, N. 2000. Review of Rethinking Music eds. Cook, N. & Everist, M. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Musicae Scientiae, 4, 1, 95-100.
Dibben, N. 1999. Review of Tramps like us. Music and meaning among Springsteen fans. Cavicchi, D. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Psychology of Music, 27, 2, 272-274.
Dibben, N. 1999. Review of Music/Ideology: resisting the aesthetic, ed. A. Krims. Canada: G&B Arts International, 1998. Critical Musicology Journal. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/CMJ/cmj.html.
Dibben, N. 1998. Review of Sounds and Society: Themes in the sociology of music. Martin, P. Manchester University Press, 1996. Psychology of Music, 26, 2, 216-17.
Dibben, N. 1998. Review of Perception and Cognition of Music. Deliège, I. & Sloboda, J. (eds.) Hove, UK: Psychology Press, 1997. Music Perception, 15, 4, 406-11.
Refereed Conference Papers in print
Dibben, N. 2003. Heightened arousal intensifies emotional experience with music. Proceedings of the 5th Tiennial ESCOM conference, R. Kopiez, A.C. Lehmann, I. Wolther & C. Wolf (Eds.). 8-13 September, Hannover University of Music and Drama, Germany. pp. 269-272. ISBN 3-931852-67-9, CD-ROM
Martin, N-J., Lamont, A. & Dibben, N. 2003. Children's perceptions of similarity relations in music. Eds. R. Kopiez, A.C. Lehmann, I. Wolther & C. Wolf. Proceedings of the 5th Tiennial ESCOM conference, 8-13 September, Hannover University of Music and Drama, Germany, pp. 586-590. ISBN 3-931852-67-9. CD-ROM
Dibben, N. & Hanson, S. 2002. Attributions of emotion to music: a comparison of emotional experience in sacred and secular contexts. Eds. C. Stevens, D. Burnham, G. McPherson, E. Schubert, J. Renwick. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Sydney. Adelaide: Causal Productions, pp. 348-351. ISBN 1876346396 CD-ROM
Lamont, A. & Dibben, N. 2000. Motivic structure and the perception of similarity. Eds. C. Woods, G. Luck, R. Brochard, F. Seddon & J. A. Sloboda, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Keele, Staffordshire, UK: Department of Psychology, pp. 166-173. CD-ROM
Clarke, E.F & Dibben, N. 1997. An ecological approach to similarity and categorisation in music. Eds. M. Ramscar, U. Hahn, E. Cambouropolos and H. Pain. Proceedings of SimCat 1997: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Similarity and Categorisation Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, pp.37-41. ISBN 0907330274
Lamont, A. & Dibben, N. 1997. Perceived similarity of musical motifs: an exploratory study. Eds. M. Ramscar, U. Hahn, E. Cambouropolos and H. Pain. Proceedings of SimCat 1997: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Similarity and Categorisation Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, pp. 143-149. ISBN 0907330274
Dibben, N. & Clarke, E.F. 1997. The perception of associative structure in atonal music, Proceedings of the Third Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, University of Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 594-598.
Dibben, N. & Clarke, E.F. 1996. The perception of underlying structure in tonal and atonal music. International Journal of Psychology, 31, 3-4, p. 2425.
Non-Refereed Abstracts, Reports And Other Publications
Commissioned report “Sweet Music: Does music help people drive more safely?” For Privilege Insurance, 2005.
Music and Social Class: Implications of Widening Participation in Higher Education for Student Experience of Teaching and Learning in Music. PALATINE, 2004. www.lancs.ac.uk/palatine/dev-awards/dibben.htm
Review of NAMHE annual one day conference, Royal College of Music, 7th May 2002. NAMHE Newsletter.
Review of the 6th International conference on Music Perception and Cognition, August 5-10, 2000. Keele University, UK. RMA Newletter, Sept. 2000."Music Perception and Critical Musicology" Critical Musicology Newsletter 1994, 2, 1-4.
"Generative Theory 10 Years On" Newsletter of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. Feb. 1995 Review of session at 3rd International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, University of Liege, July 1994.
Review of "Perspectives on Music, the Mind and Education " conference, Cambridge 1996. Newsletter of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music April 1996.
Review of The British Forum for Ethnomusicology One-Day Conference, "Music and Meaning", The Open University Music and Cultures Research Group, Open University, Milton Keynes, Nov. 1998. Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music, 1999.
"Music Perception and Critical Musicology" Critical Musicology Newsletter 1994, 2, 1-4.