Welcome to Music and Arts in Action

The journal Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) emerges from international, cross-disciplinary work that takes a wider, holistic approach in researching the dynamic role of music and the arts in social life and cultural experience. Cutting-edge work in this area considers how aesthetic experiences and artistic forms are unconsciously, semi-consciously and actively used by individuals and groups to structure social relations, situations, environments and action. Simply put, how, when and where do music and art do something, how do music and art matter?

Vol 2, No 1 (2009)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial PDF
MAiA Editorial Team 1-2

Articles

Sociology of Objects Case Study: Terra-cotta Playing Hide-and-seek in the Art Worlds Abstract PDF
Andrea Siegel 3-20
Peace Punks and Punks Against Racism: Resource Mobilization and Frame Construction in the Punk Movement Abstract PDF
Michael James Roberts, Ryan Moore 21-36
Music as Evil: Deviance and Metaculture in Classical Music Abstract PDF
Nathan Pino 37-55

Discussion

The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts Abstract PDF
Robert Witkin 56-68
The Social Organisation of Aesthetics – A Note Abstract PDF
Paul Atkinson 69-72
On the Autonomy of the Aesthetic: Witkin I versus Witkin II Abstract PDF
Jeffrey C. Alexander 73-76
Witkin III Abstract PDF
Robert Witkin 77-79

Call for Papers

Special Issue: "Music and Arts in Health Promotion and Wellness" PDF
MAiA Editorial Team 80



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