MAiA, Volume 5, Number 2
Recent Submissions
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'Criminals' Performing for Change: Budhan Theatre´s fight against injustice and police atrocity
(University of Exeter, 2016)This article is about the Budhan Theatre, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India and known for using Street Theatre as a medium to bring about social change. Budhan’s street theatre is a new kind of theatre which brings ... -
Editorial
(University of Exeter, 2016)It is our pleasure to announce a new issue of Music and Arts in Action (MAiA), published by the SocArts Research Group, University of Exeter, UK, which provides the reader with rich insights into realities remarkably ... -
'They Change Us': The social and emotional impacts on music facilitators of engaging in music and singing with asylum seekers
(University of Exeter, 2016)The literature on the social and emotional wellbeing of community musicians who engage with marginalised groups with complex mental health issues such as refugees, is relatively scarce. The Scattered People is a collective ... -
Conflict and Reparation: The agency of music in modern monastic community dynamics
(University of Exeter, 2016)Despite the social climate of individualism and freedom of choice which pervades the early twenty-first century, men and women still feel called to enter monastic life, a decision which brings with it not only vows of ... -
The Flemish Lions Singing: Community imagination and historical legitimisation of nationalism at the 76th Flemish National Song Festival
(University of Exeter, 2016)The purpose of this article is to examine how music is used as a tool to express political claims as well as to strengthen the collective consciousness of the Flemish nationalist movement in the context of the 76th Flemish ...