One theme is greater concern with individual voices, repertoire and creativity, part of the move within anthropology and other disciplines from ‘structure’ to ‘agency’. Another is an emerging interest in work on the emotions and in aesthetic and expressive facets of human activity. A more explicit focus on ‘meaning’ comes in too, both meanings to be gleaned from the ‘text’ and those expressed through a multiplicity of voices. What is involved, further, is more than just the voice of the composer/poet (in the past pictured as the central figure), but also the other participants who help to form the work and mediate its meaning and the dynamics through which this occurs.