Le musicien ethnographe à l’épreuve de ses émotions

Abstract

This article proposes a methodological reflection on how respondents can confront the researcher with his or her own emotions. For the purpose of my study I joined a punk music band, as a guitarist. In this context, the sanctions imposed on my instrumental movements have revealed a set of shared feeling rules. I show how the emotion work according to musicians’s expectations gave me access to the intimacy of an underground band, and how this emotional normalization became a heuristic point of view that enabled to better understand the role of affects within regional punk culture.

Keywords

• body
• concert
• ethnographic engagement
• subculture
• emotion work