Blog 8

Problems I encountered in my research:

Taking notes

This was difficult considering the music culture took place in a club. Most of my research I'm citingfrom memory. The atmosphere was dark and as a result I was not able to see what I was writing. Also I enjoyed the music so much that I didn't want to stop and take notes.

Conducting Interviews

Interviews were very hard to conduct at the actual club for many reasons. First of all the music was ridiculously loud. In the sense that I'm surprised that people who frequent the club are not at least partially deaf. Another reason interviews were difficult was that club attendees were into the music so much that it was almost impossible to get them to focus on anything else. To conduct interviews I decided to interview some friends that I know frequent the club often. Light shows that were going on also distracted interviewees leading to unsuccessful inquisitions.

The actual information of the music culture was not too difficult to obtain aside from the previously mentioned points. Most of the activities associated with the music culture were straightforward and easy to observe. The music repertoire has a very definite genre. The material culture involves drugs and lights. The ideas about the music culture center around a certain "PLUR" lifestyle. The information was all laid out from one visit to Insomnia.