TY  - JOUR
AU  - Chow Ow Wei
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Asian Musicology
IS  - 1
VL  - 33
SN  - 2832-1197
TI  - Paving a Path to Essentialize an “Imagined” Community: Inquiring the Contemporary Music Culture in the Digital Age through Virtual Ethnography
DO  - 10.3726/JAM331_115
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1510523
N2  - This paper regards internet users who “convene” in moderated groups according to a common interest, social attachment, or other multiple intersected connections as an “imagined” community that surfaces on a social networking platform. The validity of the community, especially when being of an ethnographer’s interest, is argued through a documentation of responses captured and operated as ethnographic data. This is a preliminary study of music culture in the digital age through online survey as virtual ethnography to explore a glimpse of the reality via reactions of an “imagined” community. Through a systematic and critical presentation of the ethnographic data, music culture in the contemporary time is interpreted as a trajectory which significantly essentializes an “imagined community” as genuine as a physical field site in the light of cultural musicology.
KW  - imagined community, digital music culture, virtual ethnography, the internet, social network
ER  -