Creativity in Later Life: Beyond Late Style

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Introduction
David Amigoni and Gordon McMullan
The challenges of late-life creativity
Imagining otherwise: the disciplinary identity of gerontology
Ruth Ray
The singing voice in late life
Jane Manning
Creative ageing: the social policy challenge
Susan Hogan and Emily Bradfield
Rethinking late style
Turner's last works and his critics
Sam Smiles
Constructing a late style for David Bowie: old age, late-life creativity, popular culture
Gordon McMullan
An 'old man in the dimming world': Theodor Adorno, Derek Walcott and a defence of the idea of late style
Robert Spencer
The varieties of late-life creativity
Late-life creativity: assessing the value of theatre in later life
Miriam Bernard and Michelle Rickett
Late-life creativity: methods for understanding arts-
generated social capital in the lives of older people
Jackie Reynolds
'It's play, really, isn't it?': dress, creativity, old age
Hannah Zeilig and Anna-Marie Almira
Visual diaries, creativity and everyday life
Wendy Martin and Katy Pilcher
Self, civic engagement and late-life creativity
Angela Glendenning
Narrating dementia
A critical narrative on late-life creativity and dementia: integrating citizenship, embodiment and relationality
Pia Kontos and Alisa Grigorovich
'The artistry of it all': narrating The Tempest, dementia and the mapping of identity in a Manchester extrincare housing scheme
Liz Postlethwaite
Terry Pratchett's Living with Alzheimer's as a case study in late-life creativity
Martina Zimmerman
Narratives as talking therapy: research with Sikh carers of a family member with dementia in Wolverhampton
Karan Jutlla
Old age, creativity and the late city
'Work, work, work and full steam ahead': Ian McKay and the conserving radicalism of the Gorton Visual Art Group, public artists in later life
John Miles
The late Peter Rice: late-style stories of ageing and the city in A Bright Past for Stoke on Trent
David Amigoni

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This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of the nature and forms of creativity in later life remains limited and that dialogue between specialists in gerontology, the arts and humanities can produce the crucial new insights that are so obviously needed. Representing the outcome of ongoing dialogue across the disciplinary divide, the contributions of this volume reflect anew on what we share and how we differ; creating new narratives so as to build an understanding of late-life creativity that goes far beyond the narrow confines of the pervasively received idea of 'late style'.

Creativity in Later Life encompasses a range of personal reflections and discussions of the boundaries of creativity, including:

Canonical artistic achievements to community art projects
Narratives of carers for those living with dementia
Analyses of creative theory

Through these insightful chapters, the authors consequently offer an understanding of creativity in later life as varied, socialised and - above all - located in the cultural and economic circumstances of the here and now.

This title will appeal to academics, practitioners and students in the various gerontological, arts and humanities fields; and to anyone with an interest in the nature of creativity in later life and the forms it takes.

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