Popular Music and Genre

Write a proposal for your ethnographic final project. This document should propose how your final project will ethnographically represent small scale social/individual examples of how a popular music genre interacts with peoples’ everyday life, and/or how peoples’
everyday life impacts the character of a popular music genre.
One paragraph, five sentences each, as a response to each prompt below.
1. Introduction. How will your project contribute to an understanding of the relationship between popular music and social class, gender, and/or race? This
paragraph must include 1 academic (JSTOR article or University Press published book)
quote.
2. Musical/social setting/context to study, one you can access locally in person (music
venues, stores, the mall, houses of worship, etc.)
3. How do you currently believe this setting/context relates to a musical genre?
4. How do you currently believe this setting/context relates to social class, gender, and/
or race?
5. Who are the people you would study in this setting/context?
6. What questions would you ask participants?
7. What aspects of the people and activities do you anticipate observing?
8. What will be the form of this final project? How will you present a narrative of your ethnographic analysis?
9. In your chosen form of the final project, how do you currently plan to represent the
ethnographic data about your field setting/context and its participation in a pop music
genre and social class, gender, and/ or race? How would you use thick descriptions, sound bites, images, lyrics, or instrumental accompaniment to represent and analyze
your ethnographic data?
10. Conclusion. How will your project contribute to an understanding of the relationship between popular music and social class, gender, and/or race?
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