Question

What gear will you need when you do your fieldwork project? How will you obtain it?

2. What organizing principles can help you study “music in your own backyard?”

3. What four approaches can you take to select a subject for your musical ethnography?

4. What is documentation, description, and interpretation, and how are they related in a musical ethnography?

5. Why are interviews useful in fieldwork? What makes an interview good or bad?

6. What is the difference between the subject of a musical ethnography and its topic? How are the two related?

7. How do thematic questions help you move from a subject to a topic?

8. How do questions that arise in your mind during your research help you arrive at the thesis, or main point, of your interpretation?

9. In your fieldwork study, what are the pros and cons of participating versus observing?

10. What ethical problems arise in fieldwork? Discuss some problems and possible solutions.

Answer 1

fieldwork is done when the researcher visits the field where on wants to collect data. The data can be collected through multiple interviews, observation method, by experiencing a certain phenomenon, interacting with the locals,recording the events occuring by pictures or through videos, collecting materials like books, scriptures etc to enhance understanding of the topic being investigated.

2) question is incomplete

3) There are various approaches that onecan employ. in the Realist Ethnography approach , the researcher takes an objective stance and typically reports what is happening in the situation .the researcher narrates the study from a third person point of view and keeps aside one's personal judgements, opinions and biases. The subjects can be selected based on the role they play in a musical culture that is the one who are key or important figures in music culture, subjects who play an important role in music related activies like music production , ordinary subjects and creative individuals or innovators in a tradition.

4) Documentation is the process of reporting the information received that includes interviews, comparing music across different cultures. Description involves decribing all the elements presented in a study. Interpretation is always subjective in an ethnographic research. the researcher first gathers the sufficient data then analyzes it and makes statements that are influenced by one's thoughts.

5) Interviews are essential in ethnography as the researcher can ask detailed, indepth questions to undrstand a situation or a phenomenon. one can understand the lived experiences better, narrative analysis can be administered. interviews comprise of open ended questions where one can ask numerous questions until a thorough undestanding is made of a topic. an interview is good when the resracher can ask multiple questions , clear all doubts, select participants who are honest and completely open. the interview becomes bad when the researcher uses his/her judgement, bias during the research process.

9) pros of observation: observing behavior as it occurs naturally, can study the real character. cons: lack of objectivity, no control over the situation

pros of participating: provides rich data that inludes lived experiences, gain better insights into the study. cons: the researcher maybe biased, studies small groups that mey not be atrue representative of the sample,

10) Here are some ethical problems: not respecting the subject's right to privacy and confidentialit, not taking an informed consent, deceiving participants