Music and Arts in Action

Aims & Scope

The journal Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) emerges from international, cross-disciplinary work that not only examines the social shaping of the arts within particular "art worlds", but takes a wider, holistic approach in researching the dynamic role of music and the arts in social life and cultural experience. In doing so, MAiA will unite research from a wide variety of fields, including musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, anthropology, applied drama, cultural sociology, social ecology, institutional and micro-ethnography, psychology and arts education. Cutting-edge work in this area actively 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, a topic-led approach is needed to examine precisely how, when and where music and art do something, how music and art matter . Music and Arts in Action accomplishes this through publishing work related to the empirical study of the everyday interplay of people and the arts. Particular interest is accorded to exploring the tacit uses of music and arts found in a wide range of social situations, from intimate encounters to public spectacles. The key focus is on individuals, groups, activity and communication, while also keeping the artistic work, performance, score or experience (along with questions of aesthetics and affordances) at the centre of the enquiry. To encourage a broad and inclusive academic look at issues relating to music and art in society, Music and Arts in Action welcomes contributions from beyond academia to develop a dialogue between researchers, educators, journalists, art historians, artists, practitioners, cultural professionals, NGOs and others. Hence, in addition to academically-oriented articles, we also promote contributions in the form of case-studies, interviews and documentations of past or ongoing interventions throughout the world.

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