Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music
A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices
Anonymity practices in electronic music culture have long been the object of journalistic and academic discourse. Yet anonymity itself is ephemeral and ontologically precarious. How can scholars research anonymous entities without impairing their anonymity, and what can they learn from their precarity?
This study describes two projects of anonymity performance as forms of critical practice (Judith Butler/Michel Foucault) involving performative play with anonymity through the use of fake identities or collaborative persona imaginations. Adopting a reflexive and performative writing style, this performance ethnography calls for a radical performative turn and an ontological reflexivity in the cultural studies of music.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 58 -
1. Laboratory Case I: Moodymann and the study of pop music persona construction
Seiten 59 - 110 -
2. Performance in music (studies)
Seiten 111 - 150 -
3. Laboratory Case II: Ursula Bogner and performance research
Seiten 151 - 198 -
Conclusion: Towards a reconceptualisation of ethnographic practice as collaborative imagination
Seiten 199 - 206 -
Appendix
Seiten 207 - 232
29 January 2019, 232 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4256-8
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