Notes
1. For more arts-sociology research that conceptualizes arts as formative of social relations and social experience, see: http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/socarts (site under construction, May 2005).
2. Ph.D. research in progress on ‘Music and Health Promotion’, University of Exeter.
3. Even when produced live, in hospital settings, music's economic cost is a mere fraction of most medical interventions and procedures (see Susan Trythall, Ph.D. research in progress, ‘Music in hospitals: an ethnographic study’).
4. The sample was recruited through four organizations and institutions: the Nature-Culture and Health Centre (NaCuHeal) in Asker; the Akershus University Hospital, Department of Health Promotion; an Art Society in the county of Akershus and a folk Club in Oslo. Two informants were recruited through other participants, i.e. snow-ball effect. During this project, there have been several individuals who wanted to join, but were declined due to the not-unlimited capacity of the research project.