Profiles in Courage: Practicing and Performing at Musical Open Mics and Scenes

Profiles in Courage: Practicing and Performing at Musical Open Mics and Scenes

This dissertation explores the social patterns and cultural layers of musical "open mics" in New York City. The study uses a qualitative approach which includes methods such as ethnography, in-depth interviewing, historical and discourse analyses focusing on open mics and the popular music...

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Main Author: Aldredge, Marcus David
Other Authors: Henderson, Kathryn
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Popular music
popular culture
ethnography
scenes
performance
creative class
audience studies
third places
cultural producers
folk music
sociology of culture
music and everyday life
musical production
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7193

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http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7193

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