Explaining Chopin, a seeming counterexample to Collins' sociology of networks analyses.
Thursday, April 16, 2020
CHOPIN'S ANTI-NETWORK CREATIVITY
Sociological research finds creativity is concentrated in networks: the most creative in one generation start their careers by contact with the most creative of the previous generation. This is the pattern world-wide in the history of philosophy, mathematics, and science. The pattern also appears in art and music. But Chopin looks like an exception. Chopin is among the most famous composers of all time. But he has no contact with the stars of the previous generation.
For Gigi, and Boop.
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