I note that there are several related stories on ‘ere about interviews.

This one features a young hopeful applying for a position in the Music Department at Cardiff:

• The interview.

Shifting the scene to a prison, this story may or may not be true:

• A flat miner.

Branching into “world music”, this one certainly is:

• Areas of expertise,

as is this fine story about Esa-Pekka Salonen’s interview for the LA Phil, exposing a mindset that is still common in both WAM and Daoist ritual studies:

• Mindsets.

This is a fantasy interview with Sam Cooke:

• Wonderful world.

“The undisputed master of” * the interview is of course Philomena Cunk, as in her programmes on

• “femininism”, and Shakespeare, as well as her series
• Cunk on Britain.

Seriously though folks, I discussed issues in fieldwork interviewing/chatting here, following Bruce Jackson.

* In homage to I’m sorry I haven’t a clue; with “master” serving as a gender-neutral term until someone comes up with a good substitute…