Abstract
This article examines the role of life narratives as discursive spaces for the performance of individual resistance. Through the inspection of three interviews with professional musicians in Athens, the essay will illustrate how the recounting of nodal events in their lives and careers facilitates an assertion of their current social ideology and their disillusionment with the popular music industry in which they operate. Ultimately, what follows will suggest a mode of listening to individual utterances and narratives as discursive forms of resistance that need to be appreciated as social acts as opposed to mere ethnographic data.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 19-28 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Irish Journal of Anthropology |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Ethnomusicology
- Greece
- Professional Musicians
- Discursive Resistance
- narrative
- power
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Music
- Anthropology