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    • Sociology of objects case study: Terra-Cotta playing hide-and-seek in the art worlds 

      Siegel, Andrea (University of Exeter, 2009)
      Sociological inquiry has been mostly absent from the investigation of massproduced material goods, especially materials in the architectural arts. If sociology takes as a subject social networks in modern society—one of ...

    • Editorial 

      MAiA Editorial Team (University of Exeter, 2009)
      This issue of Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) marks the start of our second year. As we arrive at our third issue, it has become clear that our desire to give musical and artistic forms a more central place in the study ...

    • Agency and domination in communicative performance 

      Miles, Stephen (University of Exeter, 2009)
      Communicative approaches to musical composition and performance promote symbolic dialogue between performers and audiences, and seek to expand agency for all participants. Such approaches include the altering of performance ...

    • Collective identity and racial thought in São Paulo’s black gospel music scene 

      Burdick, John Samuel (University of Exeter, 2009)
      In an effort to push the literature on music and collective identity to examine how the cognitive dimension of collective identity gets constructed, this paper shifts away from the customary focus on lyrics, toward an ...

    • Why dance? The motivations of an unlikely group of dancers 

      Lawson, Helene M. (University of Exeter, 2009)
      This article explores the motivations of adult amateur tap dancers to gain insight into how they construct their social reality, what is the significance of this activity to the dancers, and how does it relate to the dance ...