Presentation musical cultures back up 2

Local Live music: 

Mario Ellis 09021124 Local Live music

Key questions: 

Do the general public still strongly support local live popular music? If so, does cover music have a more popular audience attendance than original music, or vise versa? What is the more successful music in the local gigging circuit and why ? Key questions

How I arrived at my questions: 

Career Choice and Opportunities “Musicians usually experience their career as a series of projects, such as recording, work with various ensembles, commissioning or grant projects involvment with specific repertoire, residencies and so on.” Beeching (2005: 1) How I arrived at my questions

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Is My Question Valid Musical Genre’s If Adorno was writing about popular music today, he might argue, first, that popular music is divided into a number of standardized types: heavy metal, country, folk, blues, soul and so on. Longhurst (5: 1995) Is My Research Feasible All forms of research can take place locally -Bristol, Bath, Frome etc with 30mins distance

Academic research: 

Gender Rock and pop music are closely associated with gender-with patterns or conventions of male and female behavior and with ideas about how men ands women should or shouldn’t behave. ( Frith , 226: 2001) Gender can be studied in relation to all aspects of rock and pop culture, from representation of masculinity in rap lyrics to differences in the activities and tastes of male and female fans of country and western music. ( Frith , 226: 2001) Gendre could effect not just whether an individual got involved in music at all, but also the particular musical interests. ( Frith , 2004: 65) Age In general, one characteristic of local musical activities was the wide range of the participants, it was musical competence, not age that counted. ( Frith , 2004: 66) Academic research

Where and who: 

Local Town Music Venues Performing Bands (Both original and cover bands) Live Music Promoters Music Venue Owners The General Public Where and who

Research Methods: 

Ethnographical Research As a method, ethnography uses the researcher as the primary tool of data collection during fieldwork . ( Kruger, 2008 : 49) - Quantitative (Number of people attending gigs, venues in the area, male and female ratio.) - Qualitative (open questions to the venue owners and bands) Research Methods

Research to be carried out (how): 

Interviews with the various local performing Bands Interviews with live music promoters Interviews with venue owners Questionnaires for the general public (mixture of open and closed questions) The overall aim of the quantitative researcher is to conduct the enquiry in an unbiased, objective manner, and to investigate and measure certain patterns to derive predictable laws and axioms (Kruger, 2008:14) Research to be carried out (how)

Analysis of Data: 

The goal of analysis is to create less data not more. ( Schensul , 1999 :3) - Graphs and Pie Charts to indicate trends and correlations between quantitative and qualitative research. - Similarities between age, genre, gender. - Condense findings into the three appropriate answers for my three main questions. Analysis of Data

Evaluation: 

Limitations Availability of participating Bands, Promoters, and Venue owners. Non participation from various audiences. Evaluation

Possible result outcome from research: 

Music is not a thing at all but an activity, something people do. (Small, 1998: 2) Possible result outcome from research

Bibliography : 

Adorno , T (2004) Philosophy of modern music. The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc , New York Longhurst , B. (1995) Popular music and society . Polity Press, Oxford Beeching , A, M. Beyond Talent; Creating a successful career in music. Oxford University Press, New York(2005) Frith , S (2001) The C ambridge companion of rock and pop. Cambridge University Press Frith , S (2004) Popular Music; Music and Identity. Routledge , New York Kruger, S (2008) Ethnography in the Performing Arts. LeCompte , M,D. Schensul , J, J. Anylising and Interpritationg Ethnographical data, Volume 5. Rowman and Littlefield Publishing inc , Lanham MD. Bibliography