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Music, culture, and law

Ian Cross

This project explores how participatory music, as an interactive and affiliative communicative medium, relates to the means of managing societal order in different cultures that are interpretable as law.

Related Publications

  • Cross, I. Cultural perspectives on music and language In The Oxford Handbook of Language and Music (Forthcoming)
  • Cross, I. Music as formative social action In Keeping Time. University of Sydney Press (2024)
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