Tolmie2026c
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Tolmie2026c |
| Author(s) | Peter Tolmie, Dave Randall, Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield |
| Title | Conclusion: the production and consumption of music revisited |
| Editor(s) | Peter Tolmie, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield, Andy Crabtree |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Music |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, Oxon |
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| Pages | 287–296 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003358886-18 |
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| Book title | Ethnomethodological Studies of Music |
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Abstract
In this conclusion, we revisit the production/consumption continuum around which the order of this book was loosely constructed and examine it with a more critical, ethnomethodologically grounded eye. First of all, it is noted that the book has focused more on various ‘production’-like contexts than traditional contexts of consumption. Mindful of this, a brief overview is given of the various ways in which consumption, especially active listening to music, has been previously handled. However, the chapter then points to the huge number of ways in which production and consumption can be seen to overlap in both existing studies and in the various chapters in this volume. This raises a question about the extent to which these concepts are at all useful or meaningful. From an ethnomethodological perspective, it is argued, they have no work to do. Instead, it is proposed that this volume be considered a ‘respecification’ of these concepts by unpacking a wide variety of practices that they might otherwise be said to gloss. Beyond this, it is argued that the contents of the book be seen as concrete examples of an effort to populate the gap alluded to by Sudnow commonly termed the ‘missing what’ (Garfinkel, unpub. manu.).
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