ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the sample of lecturers working in the Music Department at the University of York, a department known for its creative ethos since its founding in 1965. It complements by Natalie Edwards, James Whittle and Alice Wright, which details student's conceptualisations of creativity in the same music department. It also explores these complexities through the views of a sample of university music lecturers concerning creative teaching in higher music education. Within higher music education, issues of creativity are further complicated by the positioning of the subject within an institutional audit culture in which creativity may be constrained by the enforced application of ubiquitous policies and procedures imposed by a higher-level management team. Furthermore, a concern to position the work of the department as creating music that has relevance to culture and society and people would also impart an ethos of social awareness to students.
