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.