Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music

A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4256-8
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Reihe: Studien zur Popularmusik

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menrath, Stefanie Kiwi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Elektronische Musik

Über Autor(innen)

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