MDA as a Research Method of Generic Musical Analysis for the Social Sciences: Sifting Through Grime (Music) as an SFT Case Study

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

MoniqueCharles¹ 

关键词: community-based research;    case study;    discourse analysis;    ethnography;    methods in qualitative inquiry;    observational research;    oral histories;    performance-based methods;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406918797021

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Using Grime as a case study, I employ the analytical framework I created, that is, Musicological Discourse Analysis (MDA) as a holistic mode of analysis to contextualize Grime sociologically and musicologically. This method retheorizes genre, providing a more specific, useful, and detailed musical classification system; the sonic footprint timestamp (SFT). The MDA framework provides a generic mode of musical analysis for research projects in sociology, cultural studies, and the social sciences fields. This article evaluates key musical influences in the evolution of Grime as both (i) a musical form and (ii) an analysis of influences in relation to its social context. It evaluates the global, local, historical, technological, political, lyrical themes, and sonic properties (sounds) found in Grime. Significantly, this framework is very much concerned with the voices in the Grime scene, and therefore respondent experiences are central to this analytical method—incorporating in-depth interviews, observation (...

【 授权许可】

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