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Toward a Conception Of "Gonzo" Ethnography

In 1967, Hunter S. Thompson burst into public atttention with a best-selling account of the savage Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang, written in a style that combined journalistic sensationalism with an extreme form of ethnographic participant observation: Thompson rode with the hell-raising Angels. Thompson-whose own drinking, drugging, and sexist exploits were to become nearly as legendary as the notorious biker troop-pioneered a form of journalism that celebrated in-depth research and personal involvement, and that was vividly descriptive and rabidly opinionated. The style was promptly christened &dquo;gonzo&dquo; with all connotations of overweening machismo clearly intended. On quite another front, during roughly the same period of time, some researchers in British cultural stud-