1st Edition

Ethnomethodological Studies of Music

390 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together studies that provide ethnomethodological accounts of musically-related phenomena, describing in detail how they are accomplished and how they contribute to our understanding of the local production of order. Reflecting the extent to which music intersects with everyday life, the topics covered are broad in scope, including studies of order surrounding the actual... Read more

1. Introduction: The Production and Consumption of Music

Dave Randall, Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree and Mark Rouncefield

 

PART I: Music Rehearsal, Performance and Production

 

2. Instructedness in Collective Music-Making

Peter Weeks

 

3. Interaction Analysis of Tuning Activities: Achieving Pitch Matching

Yuki Yoshikawa

 

4. Non-Professional Language Mediation in Ensemble Music Workshops: Learning How to Make Music Between Languages

Daniela Veronesi

 

5. The Repertoire in Motion: An Ethnography of Musical Materials

Juan Martinez Avila

 

6. Taking the Stage: An Announcement of Topics

Andrew P. Carlin and Rod Watson

 

7. Working the Production Calculus

Peter Tolmie, Glenn McGarry

 

PART II: Music and Learning

 

8. “Good Morning Everyone”: Lesson Openings in Elementary Music

Kathryn Roulston

Appendix 8.1: Transcription Conventions Used

 

9. Garfinkel’s Blues: Blues Guitar as ‘Instructed Action’

Mark Rouncefield, Alan Chamberlain and Guglielmo Fluss-Tramontano

Appendix 9.1: Transcription conventions

 

PART III: Music and Movement

 

10. Ethnomethodology of Dance: The Achievement of Rhythm in the Waltz and Vals

Darren Reed

 

11. "She Sang Along as Though She Was Unaffected": Music in Dementia Care

David Unbehaun, Dave Randall and Peter Tolmie

 

PART IV: Music and Entertainment

 

12. Playing Out: The Work of Nightclub and Amateur DJing

Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree and Ahmed Ahmed

 

13. Inside the Karaoke Box - Reconsidering the Dilemma

Yuki Yoshikawa, Yu Odanaka and Nozomi Ikeya

 

14. Conclusion: The Production and Consumption of Music Revisited

Peter Tolmie, Mark Rouncefield, Dave Randall and Andy Crabtree

 

Biography

Peter Tolmie is Principal Research Scientist in the Information Systems and New Media group at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is the co-editor of Ethnnomethodology at Work and Ethnomethodology at Play.

Andy Crabtree is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at The University of Nottingham, UK.

Dave Randall is Senior Professor in the Department of Information Systems and New media at the University of Siegen, Germany.

Mark Rouncefield is Reader in Social Informatics in the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK, and a recent Microsoft European Research Fellow. He is the co-editor of Ethnnomethodology at Work and Ethnomethodology at Play.