KORNBLUM, William <br/><br/>
Discovering ink :  a mentor for an historical ethnography 

 - Thousand Oaks :  SAGE,  September 2004 
<br/><br/> Ethonraphers often find that the discovery of a mentor, someone who generously unlocks doors and shares invaluable experience with a naive outsider, is a critical turning point in the research process. This article explores a mentor-investigator relationship in ethnographic research within the more specialized field of historical ethnography and through a case of historical ethnography: fieldwork in Chicago's jazz and blues music scenes from August through October 1924, qhere the discovery of a mentor has brought an unexpected and original perspective to the research