Professor Tia DeNora
Biography
My undergraduate studies were in music (my major instrument was flute) and sociology at West Chester University in Southeastern Pennsylvania. I completed my PhD in Sociology in 1989 at the University of California San Diego. From then until 1992, I worked at University of Wales Cardiff (where I was a University of Wales Fellow from 1989-91). I moved to Exeter in 1992. I was Chair of the European Sociological Association Network on Sociology of the Arts http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/arts.htm from 1999-2001 and have been a Vice President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Sociology of the Arts http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/rc37.htm I was an elected member of the Council of the American Sociological Associaiton Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology from 1994-7 http://www.asanet.org/sectionskat/ and am currently on the Council of the American Sociological Association Culture Section (until 2008). With Pete Martin, I have been co-editor of the Manchester University Press series, Music and Society http://catalogue.mup.man.ac.uk/acatalog/index.html and am now co-editor of the new Ashgate Series on Music & Change, with Gary Ansdell. I serve on the editorial boards of Qualitative Research http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0331.html Methodological Innovations www.methodologicalinnovations.org Cultural Sociology http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=107737 British Journal of Music Education http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BME Radical Musicology http://www.radical-musicology.org.uk/index.htm and Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) http://www.musicandartsinaction.net/
