On this post I would like to start out by updating my original proposal and week 1 posts. I feel like I need to clarify exactly how my ethnography will be done. My previous posts have a misconception that it might just be a glorified survey that is being done since I will mainly have to interact with the people I am observing in order to get any data. So for the first continuing initial phase I will use my general music study based off of myself. A log will be kept of all music I hear by my choosing, but mostly not by my choosing. Also, commercials, tv shows, and movies will be sampled for their music. I will try obviously to take samples from different genres of these categories. Background music will also be taken from local stores and also what music I seek out online. Next, observation of my own collection of music will be used as a base. Then, to expand out, I will observe a real musician of today's music. My cousin is currently recording music and touring in order for a shot at it becoming a career. I can observe him and see what he sees the music scene as. Also, I am sure more opportunities will arise to observe, but these are only the initial few that can get me started in order to study the music scene.
For the second week of results, however, this was another testing week because my final proposal was not quite finalized. So I simply did some simple observations around myself. I observed on all my commutes on the bus this week that around half of the people on the bus had ear phones in and the radio was on in the bus. Also, several people responded to a couple of questions that I put out. I found out that around fifty percent of those who responded almost always listened to music during their study time. The other majority sometimes listened to music. Only a small percentage responded that they never listened to music while studying.
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