“I Heard You Have a Compilation of Every Good Song Ever Done by Anybody”: Subjectivity, Exchange, and Interaction at Record Fairs
MIDSEM conference presentation (2009). Record fairs are regular events where dealers rent tables from the organizers to sell vinyl records, CDs, and music memorabilia to the general public. Through ethnographic research at Chicago-area record fairs and interview data, I examine the different expectations—both of record dealers and collectors—that can help us examine the subjective, one-to-one economic interactions that make up the lived experiences of the record fair event.
“Tell Everyone We’re Dead”: Underground Rock and Its Canon
MIDSEM conference presentation (2006). The rock canon, comprised of music that is surrounded by extensive critical discourse, transcends the temporal specificities inherent in popular music. What do critics find transcendent about canonical rock music? How does the emergence of a canon function for underground rock (music distributed primarily through non-commercial radio stations and independent record stores)? This paper approaches these questions through the context of ethnographic work at a non-commercial radio station in Chicago.
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