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Kaleidoscope Notes
Stacey Holman Jones
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Description for Kaleidoscope Notes
Paperback. This volume offers an innovative ethnography, which strives to express the lived experience of women's music by turning the postmodern critique into a lyrical and complex expression of social experience. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
Striving to express the lived experience of women's music at The Club, Stacy Holman Jones has created a text that is itself performative, and the reader cannot resist playing a starring role. Her evocative narrative slips in and out of prose, dialogue, and poetry. Fieldnotes and song lyrics are staged as inseparable parts of the events of social meaning occurring between ethnographer and field site, between reader and text. Jones is haunted by the specters of reliability and validity, motivated by the goals of multivocality and multiple truths, and driven by the music. She is also driven by the mystery ... Read more
Striving to express the lived experience of women's music at The Club, Stacy Holman Jones has created a text that is itself performative, and the reader cannot resist playing a starring role. Her evocative narrative slips in and out of prose, dialogue, and poetry. Fieldnotes and song lyrics are staged as inseparable parts of the events of social meaning occurring between ethnographer and field site, between reader and text. Jones is haunted by the specters of reliability and validity, motivated by the goals of multivocality and multiple truths, and driven by the music. She is also driven by the mystery ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Ethnographic Alternatives
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780761989660
SKU
V9780761989660
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About Stacey Holman Jones
Stacy Holman Jones is assistant professor in the department of communication at the University fo South Florida.
Reviews for Kaleidoscope Notes
A delightful read, one that I would recommend to group and community workers for a creative and derivative approach to themes of group culture, diversity, organizational culture, and feminist thought.
Linda Yael Schiller, LICSW, (Boston University School of Social Work)
Social Work With Groups, Journal Of Comm and Clinical Practice
Holman Jones' atmospheric accounts of her own ... Read more
Linda Yael Schiller, LICSW, (Boston University School of Social Work)
Social Work With Groups, Journal Of Comm and Clinical Practice
Holman Jones' atmospheric accounts of her own ... Read more