Popular Music Ethnographies
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- ISBN 9781835952146
- Weight: 615g
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This edited collection offers evocative ways into a range of fascinating worlds of popular music, from the Ecuadorian indie scene to Chinese rock. In exploring the experiences of musicians, fans, industry professionals and academics, the rich complexity of popular music is brought to life through ethnography as an immersive approach to undertaking and communicating research.
Experimenting with ethnography through the joys and tribulations of musical production, fandom and scholarship, these collated studies critically consider what it means to be a popular music ethnographer and to take an ethnographic approach to studying popular music.
Alongside these chapters, musicians, venue owners, music writers, live music photographers, and fans add their voices and experience in the form of shorter vignettes, ordering the content into three overlapping themes: practices; places; and identities.
Dr Sarah Raine is a Science Foundation Ireland-Irish Research Council (SFI-IRC) Pathway Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Shane Blackman is a Professor in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK), Research Fellow of the Danish National Centre for Social Research and a Research Associate in the Sociology Department of Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dr Robert McPherson is a Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications at Canterbury ChristChurch University, UK.
Dr Iain A. Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Music, and Programme Leader of BA (Hons) Commercial Music at University of the West of Scotland, UK.
