When
Join us for the College of Information Science Colloquium Series, featuring Dr. Liz Przybylski.
Friday, February 6, 2026
Presentation: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Grad Workshop: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Ethnographic research increasingly requires scholar-participants to interact online and offline, bridging face-to-face approaches with digital technologies. This talk shares insights from new hybrid ethnographic research in the popular music industries, providing approaches that are relevant across disciplinary contexts. The methodological focus will allow listeners to explore the theoretical and practical shifts researchers face when adapting to hybrid fieldsites, and think together through techniques for structuring and mapping fieldsites as well as tailoring the research process for accessibility and research team safety. By approaching a set of problems in ethnography, the presentation will outline how, if we think through the intertwining of the online and the offline and acknowledge sticky situations, we can actually find assets in these situations, and end up solving research problems.
About Dr. Liz Przybylski
Dr. Liz Przybylski is a scholar of hip hop and the popular music industry. Liz wrote Sonic Sovereignty: Hip Hop, Indigeneity and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams (NYU Press, winner of the 2025 Greg Tate Award and of the 2024 IASPM Canada Book Prize) and Hybrid Ethnography (SAGE, 2020, Honorable Mention for the Bruno Nettl Prize). An awardee of the National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Liz’s recent publications address on- and off-line hybrid ethnographic research, the role of technology in pop music distribution, and popular music pedagogy. Liz’s ongoing work interrogates music as labor within international popular music industries. A full professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Riverside, Dr. Przybylski teaches courses on ethnographic methods, popular music, Indigenous music, and gender and sexuality. On radio, Liz hosted Continental Drift on WNUR and content for At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research on CJUM.