Doing Ethnographically Grounded Music Videos

Abstract

This paper establishes the topic of the monographic number of Visual Ethnography that its authors coedited. It begins with an account of how they found themselves in the situation of producing music videos while they were doing ethnographic fieldwork, and how it pushed them to gather other researchers with similar experiences in conference panels and this dossier. After proposing a definition for ethnographically grounded music videos, the authors present the contributions to the dossier. The paper closes with a more
theoretical proposal, centred on the idea of ethnographically grounded music videos as transmodal outcomes.