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So, in this group setting, I will be participating, observing, interviewing participants, and writing extensively about what I see and hear about the user of recorded music. People actually make a living doing this- I am not even joking. The folks in the ivory tower call this type of approach “ethnographic research.” However, I intend to experiment with the environment in which people talk about and experience music as a group. Therefore, with my "heavy handed" involvement, this would not be considered a traditional ethnographic research site, but can be considered a method of “design research.” Within this blog site, I will disclose my observations while staring at my screen, waiting and hoping to receive your questions and comments.
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The Community Listening Project seeks to provide a communal listening experience for the city of Bloomington and beyond. The group meets twice a month, in my humble living quarters here in the heartbeat of America. Participants are asked to bring a piece of recorded music to share within a group setting. As a student of ethnomusicology, I am hoping to use this site as a way to learn more about the everyday listener of recorded music. Normally, ethnomusicologists look to the performer of music as a reference point of their research. By doing so, they hope to identify the meaning of music within a specific cultural setting. However, this project believes, along with Plato, that:
So, in this group setting, I will be participating, observing, interviewing participants, and writing extensively about what I see and hear about the user of recorded music. People actually make a living doing this- I am not even joking. The folks in the ivory tower call this type of approach “ethnographic research.” However, I intend to experiment with the environment in which people talk about and experience music as a group. Therefore, with my "heavy handed" involvement, this would not be considered a traditional ethnographic research site, but can be considered a method of “design research.” Within this blog site, I will disclose my observations while staring at my screen, waiting and hoping to receive your questions and comments.
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Bloomington is a sad place without its music club.
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