This course equips students with the tools for, doing ethnographic fieldwork in Portland music, scenes. Topics unfold over three stages. First, a, prefield introduction to research design,, politics, and ethics. Second, an infield focus on, skill sets for participating in, observing, and, documenting the social life of a music-centered, scene. Third, a postfield emphasis on, relationships, rights, responsibilities, and, representational strategies. In class, we discuss, readings from anthropology, ethnomusicology,, sociology, performance studies, and folklore,, along with individual work in progress.
- Teacher: Kaley Mason