Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal for articles in the field of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines — psychology, sociology, and economics — within which promising lines of research on art and culture have been developed. Poetics publishes not only advanced research reports but also overview articles. Occasional special issues, guest-edited by specialists, present the state of the art or discuss new developments in a particular field. Included among these special issues are: The Production and Consumption of Culture (2000), Advertising and Entertainment (2001) andExplorations in the Sociology of Music (2002).