Posting #9

The hardest thing to find research over is the atmosphere of a musical choir. This particular topic can only be answered when I go to my field site this week and do my observations. There are sources online and at the library that talk about this particular thing, but briefly.  I want this particular idea to be very detailed in my mini-ethnography, and to do that I need to go to my field site. 

The easiest thing to research about my particular subculture is why music is beneficial to society and how it can give strength, hope, and a sense of purpose to many people in our society today. For example, in one of the articles I found online, that happens to be from the New York Times, it talks about a Japanese prison camp and how joining together to form a choir gave the prisoners a sense of strength as well as a symbol of defiance of their captors. This is just one of many examples I've found online as to why music is beneficial to society and how it gives people a place where they fit in, and because of the many resources I've found online about these topics, research has been really easy when it comes to these topics.

If I could start over, I would've done my research earlier than I did so I could get more resources and information. Also, I would've done my interviews already so that I could have all my sensory details and my interviews out of the way, making the mini-ethnography less work and easier to do. Other than that, I would keep everything else the same. I would still find my sources online and on the library's website. I would still skim read them to get a better understanding of the sources and so I could figure out how to use the sources in my mini-ethnography.

Keeping a blog has helped a lot when it comes to keeping track of my research progress. The reason being if I ever forget something or where I'm at in my research process, all I can do is look at my blog because all the blogs we do relate to the research process we are working on each and every week. The blog helps me out a lot. I know if I didn't have it, I wouldn't know how my research is coming along as well as remember key points I want in my mini-ethnography.

The blog will help each and every student with their mini-ethnography. It gives you an understanding of the research process, where you're at when it comes to your research process, and helps you remember key points you might've forgotten that you might want to include in your mini-ethnography.