Ethnographic Analysis Of Communication

The method used to explore this topic will be an Ethnographic Analysis. This is the best method because it focuses on social aspects of communication, relating to this essay’s exploration of communication of emotion from a performer’s intention to an audience’s perception in musical performance settings.
Carbaugh (2007, p. 1) regards ‘…the various media used when communicating, and their comparative analysis…’ and how verbal and non-verbal cues create ‘…relationships, emotions, place, and communication itself.’ central to an Ethnographic Analysis and endorses it as a method of ‘…understanding communication in any possible scene…’. This is relevant to the analysis of auditory and non-verbal media of musical performance and how they simultaneously