ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how musical gentrification has been operationalised in three different, but interlinked research projects using similar theoretical frameworks and investigating the phenomenon in different contexts and through a variety of methodological approaches and types of data. In the first example, musical gentrification is explored in music academia and higher music education, through a quantitative approach in which the data are comprised of a large number of academic theses. The second example shows how ethnography can be used for approaching the phenomenon of musical gentrification in a data-rich and unruly field, namely a country music festival. Third, the focus is on how ethnographic design might aid the researcher in exploring patterns of musical gentrification in the stories and observed conduct of musicians with immigrant backgrounds related to the efforts of creating a professional career in their new country of domicile. Each of these examples comes with descriptions of links between theory and approaches, data and assumptions and case-specific accounts of what came to be defined as the signs that musical gentrification had taken place.
