Situating public performances: folk singers and song introductions

Grills, Scott

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“…Readers are encouraged to attend to the range of involvements that are captured here, for, like other complex subcultures, folk music subcultures encompass a range of actors and activities that provide meaning and purpose to activities. For example, folk music involvements include diverse activities and participants such as disk jockeys, journalists, luthiers, guitar technicians, artistic directors, dancers, visual artists, singers, songwriters, instrumentalists, fans, record producers, coffee shop employees, house concert sponsors, and record store owners (Grills, 2009). It is crucial not to oversimplify the complexity of community involvements that are associated with subcultural involvements.…”

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Florence, Quality of Life

Maggino

2014

Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

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Florence, Quality of Life

Maggino

2014

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“…This research examines how, given multiple different diagnoses over time and with failed or symptom exacerbating treatments, doubt may become an interactional resource—a resource that allows hope in the context of an uncertain future. Relatedly, my work with folk musicians examines how onstage banter and song introductions are attentive to performer doubts related to displaying competence, audience interpretations, and managing disruptions to performance (Grills 2009, 2015). Most recently, the social processes associated with doubt have influenced the analysis of inaction by those in management roles (Grills and Prus 2019:186–192).…”

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Understanding Everyday Life: Generic Social Processes and the Pursuit of Transcontextuality

Grills

2019

Symbolic Interaction

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This paper joins earlier interactionist projects in advocating for an analytical attentiveness to generic social process (GSP). This dynamic form of theorizing is indebted to the thought of Herbert Blumer and the extended phenomenological and pragmatist traditions. Rather centrally, the study of GSPs draws upon the foundational concepts of duration, intersubjectivity, and the self. Such concepts have contributed to some of symbolic interactionism's most enduring, empirically grounded and theoretically robust work. Drawing on a series of ethnographic research projects, this paper offers a research agenda for engaging GSPs transcontextually. Specifically, I argue for extending the study of GSPs through the examination of management in everyday life, the creation of subcultural value, and the social construction of doubt.

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“…provide additional information to the audience that would otherwise be unavailable, provide the artist with an opportunity to influence audience interpretations, allow for legitimating strategies to be utilized and, importantly, allow artists an opportunity to invoke disclaimers, accounts, and justifications to situate the performance at hand. 33 Performers not only regularly named the song titles. They also frequently regaled the audience with stories of the "folk process," including the origins of the songs, how they learned them, how they modified them, and what the songs meant to the performers.…”

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Performers First: Gift Exchange and Digital Access to Live Folk Music Archives

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2019

The American Archivist

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Archives commonly hold full, unedited, and unpublished recordings of live musical performances, particularly those archives that focus their collecting on local communities. Much of this content resides on deteriorating magnetic tape with highly restrictive intellectual property constraints that threaten its digital future. This article explores a possible resolution of this dilemma of preservation and access by giving preference to the perspectives and prerogatives of the musical artists represented on live folk music recordings. The article characterizes The Ark in Ann Arbor and the at-risk recordings made at this nationally recognized coffeehouse between 1969 and 1980 in the context of the late-era folk revival scene in the United States and the challenges that copyright restrictions pose for making digitized copies available to contemporary audiences. The authors present and discuss the findings of innovative memory triggering interviews with folk music performers that point toward a way to extend into the realm of digital surrogates a philosophy of the gift exchange cycle. The article argues that archives could embrace asynchronous digital streaming as an extension of the well-established folk process that is so central to the intimacy of the coffeehouse and sidestep if not completely mitigate the barriers imposed by today's intellectual property framework.

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Situating public performances: folk singers and song introductions

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Florence, Quality of Life

Florence, Quality of Life

Understanding Everyday Life: Generic Social Processes and the Pursuit of Transcontextuality

Performers First: Gift Exchange and Digital Access to Live Folk Music Archives

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