# John Sloboda

John Anthony Sloboda [1] OBE FBA (born 13 June 1950) is Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he currently leads research on the Social Impact of Making Music.[2] He is also one of the founders of the Iraq Body Count Project (www.iraqbodycount.org). His academic work has mainly been in music psychology – a subdiscipline which draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and academic musicians. His research interests have focused on the psychological aspects of the study of music performance, the emotional response to music, the functions of music in everyday life, learning and skill acquisition in music, and audience-performer relations in the live concert.