A Musical Netnography in the Age of the Internet: With a Focus on Three Classical Music Blogs
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Chou, Ching-Ting
Abstract
The focus in musicological studies has been modified, not merely figures or canons, but also everyday life is presently one of the sonic scenes to be estimated. As the internet signifies modern lives, how the notion of musicking has been applied when it comes to the age of blogging? Certain fields have touched upon this blogosphere while musicology has not shown its urgent concern to this topic so far. This paper mainly focuses on three blogs devoted to classical music. With this research, I try to understand musical blogs’ context and to examine how theses blogs connects online and offline music behaviours.
Here I would offer no simple dichotomy such as online/offline or the virtual versus the real. Internet interface is not on the other side of a real listening space, and discussion within a cyber community could reveal how its participants value their collections. Besides, to write about music on blogs is discursive; according to audio materials, the encounter between Chineseness and Western classical music would be musically considered as well.
In the age of the internet, pretty potentially, people participate in music events through blogging. My thesis is one interpretation of this phenomenon, and a sort of contemporary record. As a beginning, this paper shall hardly be self-contained, and I hope this open-ended paper would one day make a starting point.
Subjects
music blog(s)
blogosphere
musicking
mediation
music criticism
Type
thesis
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