Advances in Lyrical Consumer Research: Collaborative Circles and Paradessential Poetics Advances in lyrical Consumer Research: Collaborative Circles and Paradessential Poetics

Abstract

This brand culture research project explores the expressions of rebellion and questing for creativity in small dynamic friendship circles and their relevance for a vibrant urban reputation. The poetic texture and the schismatic core of the city as a brandscape are staged in three embodied acts. An explorative case study follows a collaborative creative circle of musicians in action. Next, paradessentials of brand performativity are sourced from key interpreters. In ethno-poetics there is no hypothesis up for validation; the project concludes with individual evocations, as a sequential thickening of unresolved paradoxes of the city's ambiguous reputation, in newly commissioned poetry. [url]: http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/1006762/eacr/vol9/E-09 [copyright notice]: This work is copyrighted by The Association for Consumer Research. For permission to copy or use this work in whole or in part, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center at http://www.copyright.com/. 275 European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 9, © 2011 Advances in lyrical Consumer Research: Collaborative Circles and Paradessential Poetics Roel Wijland, University of Otago, New Zealand Jürgen Gnoth, University of Otago, New Zealand ABStRACt This brand culture research project explores the expressions of rebellion and questing for creativity in small dynamic friendship circles and their relevance for a vibrant urban reputation. The poetic texture and the schismatic core of the city as a brandscape are staged in three embodied acts. An explorative case study follows a collaborative creative circle of musicians in action. Next, paradessentials of brand performativity are sourced from key interpreters. In ethno-poetics there is no hypothesis up for validation; the project concludes with individual evocations, as a sequential thickening of unresolved paradoxes of the city's ambiguous reputation, in newly commissioned poetry