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Ethnography and popular music studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Sara Cohen
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Simon Frith (1982) once bemoaned the fact that students would rather sit in the library and study popular music (mainly punk) in terms of the appropriate cultural theory, than conduct ethnographic research which would treat popular music as social practice and process. Ten years later the literature on popular music is still lacking in ethnography.

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Popular Music , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , May 1993 , pp. 123 - 138
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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