Publications

Ma, Xiangyu. 2026. “On the deep, surprising, and persistently gendered dynamics in complex music tastes.” Socius. Pre-print available here.

Ma, Xiangyu. 2024. “Tastes and complex tastes.” Cultural Sociology. Pre-print available here.

Ma, Xiangyu. 2024. “The costliest signals of authenticity? How death inflates artistic reputations in hip-hop.” Poetics. Pre-print available here.

Lembo, Alessandra, Xiangyu Ma & John Levi Martin. 2023. “New directions in the sociology of morality.” Handbook of the Sociology of Morality.

Ma, Xiangyu. 2021. “What are the temporal dynamics of taste?” Poetics. Pre-print available here.

Working Papers

Ma, Xiangyu, Mengmi Zhang, Shannon Ang & Minne Chen. Under review. “Ersatz tastes: assessing the ecological, relational, and positional fidelity of cultural tastes from silicon samples.” Available on ArXiv.

Lam, Hock Yuen Nickolas, Ji Xuan Voo & Xiangyu Ma. Under review. “The conditional superiority of fast silicon sampling.” Available on ArXiv.