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Towards an Ethnography of a Dutch Shanty Choir.

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1. “The” shanty choir

2. How to study a shanty choir

3. “This” shanty choir

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1. “The” shanty choir

2. How to study a shanty choir

3. “This” shanty choir

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30 52 17 8 25 3 29 44 25 22 66 7

Dutch Choirs

Members Shanty Nederland per province

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‘All this is fact. Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is

fact that requires explanation.’

(Marilynne Robinson. Housekeeping. New York: Picador, 1980.)

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1. “The” shanty choir

2. How to study a shanty choir

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Ethnography: the participant’s perspective

“… imaginative writing about real people in real

places at real times.”

(Geertz, 1988)

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Data

Ethnography

Interviews Participant observation Documents/ artifacts

“Classical Fieldwork”

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Data

Ethnography

(Narrative) Interviews Participant observation Documents/ artifacts

“Classical Fieldwork-At-Home”?

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Ethnography

Interviews Participant observation Documents/ artifacts Auto-ethnography? Data

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Data

Ethnography

Interviews Participant observation Documents/ artifacts Background knowledge

“Objective Ethnography”?

“Ethnographically inspired research”?

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Data

Ethnography

Interviews Participant observation Documents/ artifacts Reflexivity Audio-visual registrations Sensitizing concepts (“My methodological Smiley”)

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1. “The” shanty choir

2. How to study a shanty choir

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Some questions to be answered:

Do they come for the repertoire?

Do they come to meet other people?

Do they come to sing?

Do they come to have an evening off?

….

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Theoretical backgrounds 1

‘Grand Theory’

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Theory of Practice

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Theoretical backgrounds 2

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“Doing being shanty choir”

The social situation as a ‘concerted action’.

The participant’s perspective

rather than

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The right questions:

How do participants manage ‘doing-being-shanty-choir’ together?

And what are its functions for the individual participants?

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The right questions:

How do participants manage ‘doing-being-shanty-choir’ together?

- The choir as a formal society (‘Vereniging’)

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The right questions:

And what are its functions for the individual participants?

The choir as a place to sing

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Mail:

e.h.bisschop.boele@pl.hanze.nl

Site:

www.lifelonglearninginmusic.org

Blog:

www.evertsworldofmusic.com

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