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From the Subs Desk

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This ‘vignette’ chapter reflects on the ethnographic potential of the role of the magazine sub-editor, drawing on the author's experience as a sub-editor and journalist for the UK music press.

Keywords: Criticism ; Ethnomusicology ; Gossip ; Magazines ; Media Studies ; Music Journalism ; New Musical Express ; Newsroom Ethnographies ; Popular Music ; Popular Music Ethnographies

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References

  1. Adkins, Karen C. (2002), ‘The real dirt: Gossip and feminist epistemology’, Social Epistemology, 16:3, pp. 215–32.
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  2. Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Star, Susan Leigh (1999), Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press.
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  3. Gilroy, Paul (2019), ‘Bohemians, stamp-collectors, revolutionaries and critics’, in M. Sinker (ed.), A Hidden Landscape Once a Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s–80s, in the Words of Those Who Were There, London and Cambridge, MA: Strange Attractor Press and MIT Press, pp. 352–57.
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  4. Gorman, Paul (2022), The Rise and Fall of the Music Press, London: Rough Trade.
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  5. Kessler, Ted (2022), Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures, London: White Rabbit.
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  6. Wong, Deborah (2008), ‘Moving: From performance to performative ethnography and back again’, in G. Barz and T. Cooley (eds), Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 76–89.
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References

  1. Adkins, Karen C. (2002), ‘The real dirt: Gossip and feminist epistemology’, Social Epistemology, 16:3, pp. 215–32.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Star, Susan Leigh (1999), Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Gilroy, Paul (2019), ‘Bohemians, stamp-collectors, revolutionaries and critics’, in M. Sinker (ed.), A Hidden Landscape Once a Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s–80s, in the Words of Those Who Were There, London and Cambridge, MA: Strange Attractor Press and MIT Press, pp. 352–57.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Gorman, Paul (2022), The Rise and Fall of the Music Press, London: Rough Trade.
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Kessler, Ted (2022), Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures, London: White Rabbit.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Wong, Deborah (2008), ‘Moving: From performance to performative ethnography and back again’, in G. Barz and T. Cooley (eds), Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 76–89.
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