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Publication Date: 2013-Feb
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YouTube, Fanvids, Forums, Vlogs and Blogs: Informal Music Learning in a Convergent on- and Offline Music Community
Waldron, Janice
International Journal of Music Education, v31 n1 p91-105 Feb 2013
In this paper I examine the music learning and teaching in the Banjo Hangout online music community (www.banjohangout.org/) using cyber ethnographic methods of interview and participant observation conducted entirely through computer-mediated communication, which includes Skype and written narrative texts--forum posts, email, chat room conversations--along with hyperlinks to YouTube and other Internet music-learning resources. The Hangout is an example of an online community based on the pre-existing offline interests of its founding members and it is thus connected to and overlaps with the offline Old Time and Bluegrass music banjo communities. Although I focus on the Banjo Hangout online community, this study also provides peripheral glimpses--embedded in the participants' narratives--into the offline Old Time and Bluegrass banjo communities of practice. As a cyber ethnographic field study, this research also highlights the epistemological differences between on- and offline community as reflected in music education online narrative qualitative research and research practice. (Contains 10 notes.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Web Sites, Musical Instruments, Music, Ethnography, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Informal Education, Music Education, Educational Research, Electronic Publishing, Qualitative Research, Participant Observation, Blended Learning, Participation
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