Ethnographing TikTok

Toward an E3thnomusicological Approach to a Multimedia Musicking

Abstract

In this article, drawing on reflections of my ethnographic research on TikToks musicking, I will briefly review the ethnographic model introduced by Alan P. Merriam (1964), in order to introduce to this model the concept of E3 Internet by Christine Hine (2015) looking to understand the internet and its (musical) practices as a daily, highly embedded, and embodied experience. Understanding musicking as a multimedia practice that different actors create and experience in everyday synchronous and asynchronous, physical and digital situations. I will propose a path to an interdisciplinary musical ethnographic model for the study of multimedia and multilocal music practices.