Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing / Making Music Personal

Brief Description: Written through the eyes, ears, emotions, experiences and stories of music and autoethnography practitioners, this edited collection showcases how autoethnography can expand musicians' awareness of their practices, and how musicians can expand the creative and artistic possibilities of autoethnography. Marc Notes: Reprinted in 2010.; Includes bibliographical references.; Electronic reproduction.; Palo Alto, Calif.: ebrary; 2011.; Available via World Wide Web.; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Publisher Marketing: Explores an intersection of autoethnographic approaches with studies of music. This title showcases how autoethnography can expand musicians awareness of their practices, and how musicians can expand the creative and artistic possibilities of autoethnography.

Contributor Bio:  Ellis, Carolyn Carolyn Ellis is professor of communication and sociology in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Final Negotiations (1995) and The Ethnographic I (2004) and numerous autoethnographic short stories. She is also coeditor (with Arthur Bochner) of Composing Ethnography (1996), Ethnographically Speaking (2002), and the Left Coast book series Writing Lives.