Performing ethnography: Irish traditional music sessions and new methodological spaces

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 661-676

  Morton, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Irish music; Performance; Performance ethnography; Practice

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; ETHNICITY; MUSIC;

EID: 27144436821     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360500258294     Document Type: Article

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