Popular Music Ethnographies

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.

• Foreword – Ethnographic Waves Will Straw Introduction – Popular Music and Ethnography: An Introduction to Studies, from Musicology to Ethnomusicology and BeyondShane Blackman, Robert McPherson, Sarah Raine and Iain A. Taylor Part I: PracticesVignette 1. From the Subs DeskFrances Morgan Chapter 1. Raving Potentialities: Navigating Queer Fields in Post-austerity LisbonJasemin Anika Khaleli Chapter 2. Conviviality and Collaboration: The Intimacies of Ethnographic Practice and Popular Music Production between Tanzania and the United KingdomDavid Kerr and Hashim RubanzaChapter 3. Developing Digital Intimacies: Examples from Lockdown Ireland of a Sustainable and Hopeful Popular Music EthnographySarah Raine and Aileen Dillane Chapter 4. CineWorlding PolyMUSICamory: Cinematic Research-Creation’s Speculative WorldingsMichael B. MacDonald Chapter 5. A Two-Way Street! Reflections on Supervising Ethnographic Popular Music Ph.D. ProjectsAndy Bennett Vignette 2. Fight, Flight or Freeze: A Full Circle Breakthrough in ImprovisationDiljeet Kaur Bhachu  Part II: PlacesVignette 3. Putting the Work in: Finding a Community within the DIY Music IndustriesRebecca Wallace Chapter 6. Breaking in Greater Tokyo: Socially Constructed ‘Sacred Places’ for Hip Hop DanceJason Ng Chapter 7. Queering Carnival: Soca and Safe Spaces in JamaicaErin MacLeodChapter 8. ‘I Need More of You’: Popular Music, Public Space and Political MobilizationKai Ginkel Chapter 9. Notes on Studying Ecuadorian Independent Music: Endogenous Ethnography as Counter-Colonial Practice and the Politics of AffectJuan Pablo Viteri Chapter 10. Carving Out Our Own Spaces: Accessing Chinese Rock Music Scenes through a Multi-Method Ethnographic ApproachMengyao Jiang Vignette 4. One Man, One Vision, Two Iconic Black Country Venues: Keepin’ Music LiveMike Hamblett  Part III: IdentitiesVignette 5. In Conversation with Michelle Grace Hunder Chapter 11. Dynamic Reggae/Dancehall Bodies: An Ethnography into the Dance of Identity and Visibility‘H’ Patten Chapter 12. ‘Chaperone Ethnography’ within Popular Music Studies in Algeria: Fieldwork Explorations of the MA-GNI-FICENT Show of Belles Nuits de TigzirtRadia Kasdi Chapter 13. Rebels in Society? Ethnographic Moments of ‘Street Politics’ and Organic Intellectuals in the Historical and Contemporary UK Oi! Punk SceneAidan O’Sullivan and Nathan KerriganChapter 14. Policing Popular Music – ‘Therapy in the Trap’: An Online Ethnography of UK Drill and Grime Artists, Producers and ListenersIsobel Ingram and Shane BlackmanChapter 15. ‘But Anyway … You Know How It Is, How Things Go’: The Value of Group Interpretation Settings in Understanding Researcher Positionality During Insider ResearchEva Krisper Chapter 16. Scattered Diaries: Biographical Dialogues on the Ethnographic Imagination, Friendship and Popular Music ResearchAsya Draganova and Shane BlackmanVignette 6. ‘Latching Onto Music’: A Personal Journey through UK Subcultures Grant Sullivan Concluding Thoughts – Ethnography as a Basis to Study Popular Music: From Obvious Statements to Original EndeavorsMarie Buscatto Notes on Contributors