Popular Music Ethnographies : Practices, Places and Identities / edited by Sarah Raine [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raine, Sarah, editor.

Series:

BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research Series

BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research Series ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, IL : Intellect Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary book takes the reader on global journeys from the UK to China, from Ecuador to Jamaica, through a melange of music genres. In doing so, it raises key questions as the contributors reflect upon doing and communicating ethnographic research on popular music. 14 b&w illus.

Contents:

Cover

Popular Music Ethnographies

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Ethnographic Waves

Popular Music and Ethnography: An Introduction to Studies, from Musicology to Ethnomusicology and Beyond

PART 1: PRACTICES

Vignette 1. From the Subs Desk

1. Raving Potentialities: Navigating Queer Fields in

2. Conviviality and Collaboration: The Intimacies of Ethnographic Practice and Popular Music Production between Tanzania and the United Kingdom

3. Developing Digital Intimacies: Examples from LockdownIrel and of a Sustainable and Hopeful Popular Music Ethnography

4. CineWorlding PolyMUSICamory: Cinematic Research-Creation's Speculative Worldings

5. A Two-Way Street! Reflections on Supervising Ethnographic Popular Music Ph.D. Projects

Vignette 2. Fight, Flight or Freeze: A Full Circle Breakthrough in Improvisation

PART 2: PLACES

Vignette 3. Putting the Work in: Finding a Community within the DIY Music Industries

6. Breaking in Greater Tokyo: Socially Constructed 'Sacred Places' for Hip Hop Dance

7. Queering Carnival: Soca and Safe Spaces in Jamaica

8. 'I Need More of You': Popular Music, Public Space and Political Mobilization

9. Notes on Studying Ecuadorian Independent Music: Endogenous Ethnography as Counter-Colonial Practice and the Politicsof Affect

10. Carving Out Our Own Spaces: Accessing Chinese Rock Music Scenes through a Multi-Method Ethnographic Approach

Vignette 4. One Man, One Vision, Two Iconic Black Country Venues: Keepin' Music Live

PART 3: IDENTITIES

Vignette 5. In Conversation with Michelle Grace Hunder

11. Dynamic Reggae/Dancehall Bodies: An Ethnography into the Dance of Identity and Visibility.

12. 'Chaperone Ethnography' within Popular Music Studies in Algeria: Fieldwork Explorations of the MA-GNI-FICENT Show of Belles Nuits de Tigzirt

13. Rebels in Society? Ethnographic Moments of 'Street Politics' and Organic Intellectuals in the Historical and Contemporary UK Oi! Punk Scene

14. Policing Popular Music - 'Therapy in the Trap': An Online Ethnography of UK Drill and Grime Artists, Producers and Listeners

15. 'But Anyway … You Know How It Is, How Things Go': The Value of Group Interpretation Settings in Understanding Researcher Positionality During Insider Research

16. Scattered Diaries: Biographical Dialogues on the Ethnographic Imagination, Friendship and Popular Music Research

Vignette 6. 'Latching Onto Music': A Personal Journey through UK Subcultures

Concluding Thoughts: Ethnography as a Basis to Study Popular Music: From Obvious Statements to Original Endeavours

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781835950586

1835950582

OCLC:

1511108721