Jan 20 Box 11

The subculture I want to choose is the music industry and how different parts of music are taught and portrayed. The reasons I choose this subculture is because I was in the subculture for eight years and I want to take a look at the culture as an outsider instead of an insider. I want to look at certain things people do in the industry, how certain music is taught, how people portray different types of music, how music students act in the culture, what they tend to wear, and what they tend to like. Some fixed positions that might affect my view on the culture could be my age, my ethnicity, my education, etc. The fact I know a lot about the culture already and how it is taught could affect how I look at the subculture as an outsider. The fact I have a lot more education in music than a lot of people I would be interviewing could affect what types of questions I ask since I have lots of experience in the field. Some of my personal experiences, such as warming up, practicing after school, singing in concerts, doing plays every year, wearing choir outfits, and watching musicals all the time are just a few of the subjective positions I have going into looking at the music culture as an outsider instead of the insider I've been accustomed to for eight years.