Becoming a Follower of the Merseysippi Jazz Band: An Approach from Ethnography, Autoethnography and Social World Analysis - A Study in Resocialization

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T1 - Becoming a Follower of the Merseysippi Jazz Band: An Approach from Ethnography, Autoethnography and Social World Analysis - A Study in Resocialization

AU - Ekins, Richard

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PY - 2015/11/1

Y1 - 2015/11/1

N2 - This article is a study in the interrelations between ethnography, autoethnography and social world analysis as applied to a musical event – a weekly jazz residency – attended by the elderly. It illustrates the ‘dying embers’ of New Orleans revivalist jazz in the UK with reference to the author’s resocialisation into ‘classic’ New Orleans revivalist jazz by members of Liverpool’s Merseysippi Jazz Band, the longest established New Orleans revivalist jazz band in the UK.

AB - This article is a study in the interrelations between ethnography, autoethnography and social world analysis as applied to a musical event – a weekly jazz residency – attended by the elderly. It illustrates the ‘dying embers’ of New Orleans revivalist jazz in the UK with reference to the author’s resocialisation into ‘classic’ New Orleans revivalist jazz by members of Liverpool’s Merseysippi Jazz Band, the longest established New Orleans revivalist jazz band in the UK.

KW - Autoethnography

KW - ethnography

KW - Merseysippi Jazz Band

KW - New Orleans jazz revivalism

KW - social worlds

U2 - 10.1558/jazz.v9i1.21250

DO - 10.1558/jazz.v9i1.21250

M3 - Article

VL - 9

SP - 7

EP - 36

JO - Jazz Research Journal

T2 - Jazz Research Journal

JF - Jazz Research Journal

SN - 1753-8637

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ER -