scholarly journals Moments of identity: dynamics of artist, persona, and audience in electronic music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Formilan ◽  
David Stark
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Complete Control ◽  
Analytic Tool ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
People's Daily

AbstractIn our account of artistic identities among electronic music artists, we point to the notion of persona as a key element in a triadic framework for studying the dynamics of identity. Building on pragmatist theory, we further draw on Pizzorno’s concept of mask and Luhmann’s notion of second-order observation to highlight the dual properties of persona: whether like a mask that is put on or like a probe that is put out, persona is a part that stands apart. Persona is an object that alter can recognize and by which ego can be recognized; but what is recognized defies the person’s complete control. We thus conceptualize identity as a multi-sided relationship that involves person, persona, and others. Building on our ethnographic research among electronic music artists in Berlin and New York, we characterize this relationship in terms of attachment between artist and persona, between artist and audience, and between persona and audience. These attachments are variable and independent from one another. The resulting model is an analytic tool to examine identity as the ongoing outcome of the three-way dynamics of such shifting attachments. We are attentive to persona because the creation and curation of online profiles have become a pervasive element in many people’s daily interactions in both social and work situations.

scholarly journals ¿ESTÉTICAS HABITACIONALES DE LA EMERGENCIA?: UNA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LAS CASAS EN ARGENTINA EN TIEMPOS DE COVID-19.

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-142
Author(s):  
María Florencia Blanco Esmoris
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
The Future ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Daily Changes ◽  
The Way ◽  
Domestic Landscapes

This paper proposes the notion of housing aesthethics of emergency to highlight the way in which people develop material tactics of certainty through modifying their homes in times of crisis, in this case, related to the Covid-19 virus. To this end, I present some vignettes of my own ethnographic research conducted in the Municipality of Morón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and references from social anthropology —and beyond— to articulate reflections on housing and the future. Thereby I introduce questions about people’s daily changes and their practical translations. Specifically, how they find certainty ‘in the provisional’, composing specific domestic landscapes. This essay seeks to enhance understanding of how aesthetic production —understood in broader terms— constitutes a mode of living in times of crisis.

Performance and Citizenship

2021 ◽  
pp. 182-198
Author(s):  
Ioana Szeman
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
A Performance

This chapter proposes the citizenship gap as a paradigm that connects the experiences of migrants and minorities who have legal citizenship but few de facto rights and uses a performance lens to bring scholarship on citizenship in conversation with research on migration and minorities. It argues that the concepts of performance and performativity allow us to grasp modes of citizenship that do not follow verbal, logocentric interactions and are not directly addressed to the state and state institutions and to follow the citizenship gap as it is experienced in people’s daily lives. Using an intersectional lens and ethnographic research with Roma in Romania, the chapter follows the performative and everyday iterations and enactments of citizenship among different Roma. It argues that the concepts of the public and audience in theorizations of citizenship need to be reconfigured to include Roma, other minorities, and migrants more generally, and shows how Roma artists and activists claim countercultural citizenship and belonging in a variety of media and through acts of citizenship that may otherwise be overlooked.

scholarly journals ¿ESTÉTICAS HABITACIONALES DE LA EMERGENCIA?: UNA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LAS CASAS EN ARGENTINA EN TIEMPOS DE COVID-19.

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-142
Author(s):  
María Florencia Blanco Esmoris
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
The Future ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Daily Changes ◽  
The Way ◽  
Domestic Landscapes

This paper proposes the notion of housing aesthethics of emergency to highlight the way in which people develop material tactics of certainty through modifying their homes in times of crisis, in this case, related to the Covid-19 virus. To this end, I present some vignettes of my own ethnographic research conducted in the Municipality of Morón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and references from social anthropology —and beyond— to articulate reflections on housing and the future. Thereby I introduce questions about people’s daily changes and their practical translations. Specifically, how they find certainty ‘in the provisional’, composing specific domestic landscapes. This essay seeks to enhance understanding of how aesthetic production —understood in broader terms— constitutes a mode of living in times of crisis.

Book review: Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E. and Mashiri, M., editors, 2017: Young People’s Daily Mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Moving Young Lives

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-221
Author(s):  
Shannon Philip
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Young Lives

Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E. and Mashiri, M., editors, 2017: Young People’s Daily Mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Moving Young Lives. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. XVII + 250 pp. £92.00 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9781137454317.

State-press relationship revisited: A comparison of foreign policy coverage on the Hong Kong 1997 issue by three newspapers

1994 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Chan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
The Times

Research in media diplomacy often concluded that media took a pro-government stance in covering foreign affairs. This study tested this finding by content analysing the coverage of the Hong Kong 1997 issue by the New York Times, the Times of Britain and the People's Daily of China. The data indicated that the two western newspapers departed significantly from their governments’ respective positions on the issue, while the People's Daily has followed Beijing's stance on the issue all along. The result challenged the viewpoint of ‘media as governments’ cheerleaders’. A more dynamic approach to media diplomacy research is suggested.

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