Musicking TikTok : A Musical Ethnography from a Glocal Austrian Context / Juan Bermúdez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bermúdez, Juan, author.

Series:

New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media.

New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and technology.

Music--Performance.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This ethnographic work about TikTok's musicking in a glocal (Austrian) context complements and build upon ethnomusicological assumptions, theories, and methods for the study of musical practices in digital spaces. An overview of elements that make up TikTok's interface as well as the technical-performative possibilities that it allows, this book introduces a general categorization of existing performance types and how TikTokers appropriate the platform to make their music. It illustrates how some TikTokers became aware of and began using TikTok, and it reviews some of the different strategies TikTokers apply to learn how to use the application and successfully develop their performances. The author explores how performers move from being "ordinary users" to becoming TikTokers, developing and performing an identity he calls TikTok Persona. Moreover, the author discusses how some TikTok practices can and have occurred across multiple, interconnected platforms, and he examines how localities are articulated and negotiated in these contexts. The author argues for an understanding of musicking as a multimedia practice that different actors create and experience individually in everyday synchronous and asynchronous, physical and digital situations. The so-called TikTokers, the author demonstrates, create a sense of identity and community through their performances. This study suggests that a digital performance can be, aside from a representation of reality, an integral part of it, serving as a fundamental space for constructing and performing identity.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Introduction

1 Ethnographing TikTok1

2 Performing TikTok

3 Becoming a TikToker

4 Localizing TikTok

5 TikToking Musics

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798765112212

9798765112199

9798765112205

OCLC:

1442968006