Within this broad agenda for the journal, it is envisaged that a number of more specialised areas of interest will emerge, relating, for instance, to the Asian Performance Research Centre and the Music Performance Research Group based at Middlesex University, as well as the Research Centre into Creativity in the Performing, whose work underpins other sections of ePAI.
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Smith, J. (1999) Postmodern narrative methodologies. London, New Press
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