Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music: A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices

Stefanie Kiwi Menrath

Published by transcript Verlag 2019

Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music

A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices

Stefanie Kiwi Menrath

In the series Studien zur Popularmusik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839442562

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About this book

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.

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Stefanie Kiwi Menrath (Dr. phil.) is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hildesheim and works in cultural and music education projects.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
1. Laboratory Case I: Moodymann and the study of pop music persona construction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
2. Performance in music (studies) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
3. Laboratory Case II: Ursula Bogner and performance research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Conclusion: Towards a reconceptualisation of ethnographic practice as collaborative imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Pop Music; Performance; Ethnography; Anonymity; Musicology; Popular Culture; Music; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: February 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839442562