Ethnomethodological Analysis of Moral Themes in the Life-world of Pop Music: A Critical Study of the Concert
Akhlāq-i zīstī i.e., Bioethics Journal,
Vol. 13 No. 38 (1402),
28 May 2023
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Page 1-15
https://doi.org/10.22037/bioeth.v13i38.43989
Abstract
Background and Aim: Pop music fans form a group that creates common norms and beliefs according to conversational and common sense. As a result, social structures and order are created temporarily. In the life-world of activists who gather around pop music and concert, ethics and its themes are also affected by the same order and arrangement.
Methods: This article pays attention to Howard Becker's paradigm and using ethnomethodology (in theoretical and methodological aspects), has critically studied the moral themes of pop music. Based on purposeful and theoretical sampling, 85 lyrics of 34 famous pop singers within 2021-23 have been analyzed. The data analysis method is inductive thematic analysis.
Ethical Considerations: Aspects related to interests and benefits have been observed. The data are authentic, reliable, trustworthy and non-sensitive.
Results: The overarching theme is romantic relationships. Also, 9 organizing themes include virtues, vices, preparations, level and intensity, requirements, effects and results, threats and dangers, expectations and aspirations and ideals. The basic themes under each of the nine themes form sub-themes.
Conclusion: In the results and interpretation, attention has been paid to the following topics: folk culture, worldview structures, types and levels of ethics, idealization of lifestyle, real-fantasy ethics, simulation, pseudo-charismatic personality of the singer, satisfaction of feelings, monopoly of pop genre and themes, epicurean logic, taste making, market logic, economy of culture and art, art agents and network.
- Ethnomethodology
- Ethics
- Pop Music
- Concert
- Life-World
- Thematic Analysis
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