When I started the search for an interesting subject to do my fieldwork on, I found it a challenge to overcome scheduling obstacles and still find something that would suit my fancy. After I finally found an event, I thought about what my topic would be and became extremely overwhelmed when searching for a theme that is intriguing while also giving a new perspective to what some would call basic observations of a live performance. With that said, I found it immensely relieving when I began to take field notes and quickly detected a pattern among spectators that grasped my curiosity. My event was a live rock and roll musical performance by the band “Finish This” that took place at approximately nine o’clock on Saturday, November 26th in the
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I could distinguish the separation of intentions by each age group for being present that night. It seemed that after the older group of people on the left side of the bar and at the tables enjoyed their dinner and after dinner drinks, they would listen to the music and chose to eat that night at the Dog House for the experience of live music. On the contrary, the younger group of people just drank the whole night and used the experience of the live music event as a social gathering to comingle with their peers. In Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music, David Brackett uses multiple culture-related case studies to provide a relationship between categories of music and categories of people and in this case those categories refer to generations of people. Brackett makes the connection to how sound is essential in how we as people feel connected to certain people but also how we feel disconnected from others (Brackett). In the example of the live music performance I witnessed, the certain connection is between the particular generation of music performed connecting to the different age groups of the audience. In another viewpoint, cultural sociologist Andy Bennett reviews the way in which people grow older with music. Bennett makes a connection between how many fans and lovers of old generation music have that music engrained in their identity and many of them have not died they have just grown old. According to Bennett, in many cases these individuals want to rediscover a path to tap into their youth (Bennett). The reasoning that Bennett puts forth sheds a great light on the appreciation that the older age group of spectators at the bar on Saturday night shows toward the aging generation of music that they would have listened to in their youth. It may seem like I am going out
I could distinguish the separation of intentions by each age group for being present that night. It seemed that after the older group of people on the left side of the bar and at the tables enjoyed their dinner and after dinner drinks, they would listen to the music and chose to eat that night at the Dog House for the experience of live music. On the contrary, the younger group of people just drank the whole night and used the experience of the live music event as a social gathering to comingle with their peers. In Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music, David Brackett uses multiple culture-related case studies to provide a relationship between categories of music and categories of people and in this case those categories refer to generations of people. Brackett makes the connection to how sound is essential in how we as people feel connected to certain people but also how we feel disconnected from others (Brackett). In the example of the live music performance I witnessed, the certain connection is between the particular generation of music performed connecting to the different age groups of the audience. In another viewpoint, cultural sociologist Andy Bennett reviews the way in which people grow older with music. Bennett makes a connection between how many fans and lovers of old generation music have that music engrained in their identity and many of them have not died they have just grown old. According to Bennett, in many cases these individuals want to rediscover a path to tap into their youth (Bennett). The reasoning that Bennett puts forth sheds a great light on the appreciation that the older age group of spectators at the bar on Saturday night shows toward the aging generation of music that they would have listened to in their youth. It may seem like I am going out