Ethnography in Western Popular Music Research Revisited: A Case Study and/as a Critique

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7NqPdlWPAg" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7NqPdlWPAg</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.41162" target="_blank" >10.1558/jwpm.41162</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ethnography in Western Popular Music Research Revisited: A Case Study and/as a Critique

Original language description

In this article, I focus on ethnomusicological and popular music studies&apos; examinations of Western popular music cultures, and provide a critique of some of their methods. Further, my main aim is not to propose a new method, but to suggest a re-emphasis of some of the fundamental ethnographic approaches in studying Western popular music cultures. These include participatory observation, grounded ethnography, materialism, thick description, and cultural relativism. To substantiate these arguments, I examine my own ethnographic research of American DIY (&quot;do-it-yourself&quot;) venues and scenes as an example of a participatory research of living and touring with DIY participants and studying their everyday lives. I recount my fieldwork methods and experiences and demonstrate how the focus on non-musical and private aspects of American DIY music cultures can produce a better understanding of their musical and public sides. Finally, I also argue how the proposed methodological re-evaluation can help to decolonize music studies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of World Popular Music

ISSN

2052-4900

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

207-235

UT code for WoS article

000731630100004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85122254846