Step 4A - Describe the event/genre(s) as a whole

Question 1

Relate 7 anthropological lenses to…

Answer 1

forms of artistic communication

Question 2

4 additional categories relate to how arts fit into culture

Answer 2

1. apparent purpose of event
2. emotions (how feel about? what expressed during?)
3. community values shown
   communal investment (what, to what extent, etc.)

Question 3

Take a first glance questions

Answer 3

what, why, who, to whom, where, when, with what connotations, how are new instances created?

Question 4

Take a first glance questions (source)

Answer 4

Seeger (2004)

Question 5

Seeger (2004)

Answer 5

(who, what, why, etc.) list modified from his suggestion to start with journalistic questions for broad strokes

Question 6

For 7 lenses, give

Answer 6

• basic description
• research questions
• research activities
• artistic domain connections
• meaning connections (basically just relates each one to Step C—broader cultural themes)

Question 7

Space (special notes)

Answer 7

includes the people responsible for the space; INCLUDE BROADER PHYSICAL CONTEXT (national/regional/local)

Question 8

Participant organization

Answer 8

includes everyone involved, whether present at the event or not (e.g., creators of a script)

Question 9

shape through time

Answer 9

shortest segment in which we’re interested is the motif (smallest meaningful collection of performance features); INCLUDE BROADER TEMPORAL CONTEXT (year, month, day, time)

Question 10

performance features

Answer 10

observable, patterned/conventional; anything that can be transcribed
• produced by participants
• choosing embodied actions (within acceptable variation; based on source material)
• derived from formal systems (according to genre expectations)
• and temporal patterns
• experienced (1) by participants (2) through communication channels
• feature production
• similarities/contrasts

Question 11

communication channels

Answer 11

what can you perceive through each of the 5 (hear? see? smell? feel? taste?)

Question 12

communication channels (source)

Answer 12

Finnegan (2002)

Question 13

feature production

Answer 13

what do participants do with voices, bodies, words, objects?

Question 14

similarities/contrasts

Answer 14

how they express intensity, weight, flow? how organize time?

Question 15

performance features: look especially for

Answer 15

o repeated actions
o actions that provoke a strong reaction
o heavy contrasts between sets of bundled features
o where participants focus their attention
o what other people have told you is important