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Understanding Which Fandom? Insights from Two Decades as a Music Fan Researcher
Duffett, Mark
Duffett, Mark
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University of Chester
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2018-04-18
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As researchers, when we study media fandom, are we all studying the same thing? If we have a shared object now, does that mean our traditional disciplines no longer matter? Twenty years ago, Clifford Geertz published an academic memoir called After the Fact. Its subtitle said, “Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist.” Geertz’s (1995) book discussed his insights from forty years as a professional scholar. At the time his memoir appeared, I embarked on a PhD exploring the cultures and meanings made by Elvis Presley fans. In the two decades since, my career has taken me to a place where I wrote a book introducing the field of fan research, called Understanding Fandom (Duffett 2013a). Following Geertz, this chapter aims to map my academic journey and offer some pointers about how fan scholarship could develop. As part of that mapping, I will be citing my own work and reactions to it.
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Duffett, M (2018). Understanding Which Fandom? Insights from Two Decades as a Music Fan Researcher. In Booth, P. (Ed.), A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, (pp. 463-476). Chichester, United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell.
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9781119237167