Ethnography Interviews

For our (me, Brian, Gabi) ethnography project we decided to include an interview into our audio recording. So over the weekend we all picked one person to interview and we asked them three questions about sound. I interviewed my friend who was from New York because I figured she would be used to a lot different things. I asked her, Where did you grow up and describe how growing up there was in terms of sound?, How does the sound you are used to growing up in New York differ from what you hear now in Charlotte?, and for the last question we all thought of different ones. Mine was, Do you agree that sound differs in different cultures?. My friend told how she was used to the busy sounds of New York and then when she came down here she noticed things were much calmer and people didnt talk as fast or loud.

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

In class, Lacy read us the story "Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge". Afterwards she asked us to list five things. Those things were: something warm, something from long ago, something that makes you cry, something that makes you laugh, and something as precious as gold. For something warm I listed my dog Niko when he used to sleep next to me every night. For something form long ago I said a teddy bear that I got the day I was born named "Brownie Bear". Something that makes me cry is any song that has to do with the father daughter relationship and growing up. Something that makes me laugh is a picture from last thanksgiving of my mom and my grandma making silly faces at the camera. And something as precious as gold are lyrics, written on a sheet of notebook paper, of a song my dad had wrote a while ago and I remember telling him he was going to be the next James Taylor.

This page in my journal is one of my favorites so far because it let me relive some very good memories. Although at first I thought it was a little weird that Lacy was reading a childrens book to a group of college kids, I now understand the underying message.

Annotated Bibliography

Student Union at UNCC, Charlotte, NC. 30 Oct. 2012. Josie Young. IMG_2576

This is a picture of the student union at UNCC. I chose to take this picture to show where I was sitting when I did my observations. The topic I did was sound so I sat in the union and wrote everything I heard.

Ethnography Mapping in Daybook, Charlotte, NC. 30 Oct. 2012. Josie Young. IMG_2578

This is a picture of my notes I took in my daybook. I took my daybook with me to me to the student union. When I was there at the student union I took noted on everything I heard since my topic was sound.

Ethnography Mapping, Class notes. English 1100. Lacy Manship. 30 Oct. 2012

This is my citation of my actual written notes in my daybook. The notes in my daybook were on my topic, sound, for my ethnography project.