Table 2 Guidelines for evaluating innovation in performance
From: Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap
Factors considered | |
|---|---|
Creative use of Language | Did the participant generate a narrative? |
Did the participant vary the types of content? | |
Did the participant avoid crutch phrases? (“you know”) | |
Did the participant incorporate humor? | |
Did the participant incorporate “uncommon” words? | |
Did the participant expand upon topics that were introduced? | |
Did the participant employ multi-syllabic rhymes schemes? | |
Was the participant able to maintain a coherent rhyme scheme over longer periods of time (greater than two bars)? | |
Creative use of Rhythm | Did the participant vary rhythmic patterns? |
Were the varied patterns connected to rhyme schemes? | |
Was the participant able to rap at a rapid rate? | |
Was the participant able to maintain a complex rhythm over longer period of time? | |
Was the participant able to use rhythm that resulted in innovative “phrasing” (e.g. extending rhyme schemes past their natural beginning and end points)? |
