Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music : : A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices / / Stefanie Kiwi Menrath.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Menrath, Stefanie Kiwi,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studien zur Popularmusik
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

In electronic music culture, anonymity practices have long been established as a method of critique of pop star cult and identification regimes. How can scholars research an anti-representational music culture and what can they learn from it? Recently, electronic pop music has resorted to a performative play with identity involving fake or parafictive identities or collaborative persona imaginations.This study sketches two musico-artistic projects of anonymity performance as forms of immanent and particulate `critical practice' in the sense of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. Adopting performance in a reflexive and performative writing style, this `performance ethnography' calls for a radical performative turn in the cultural studies of music.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Laboratory Case I: Moodymann and the study of pop music persona construction -- 2. Performance in music (studies) -- 3. Laboratory Case II: Ursula Bogner and performance research -- Conclusion: Towards a reconceptualisation of ethnographic practice as collaborative imagination -- Appendix