Le musicien ethnographe à l’épreuve de ses émotions

Le musicien ethnographe à l’épreuve de ses émotions

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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 Chess Set 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 Freewheels 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.