This project is based on an ethnographic interview conducted with a member of your family. The exercise will integrate themes and ideas outlined in the course and written into a 3 page report. After conducting your interview and compiling your notes, write up your data. Provide a description of the person (“John is a 43 year old man of Mexican descent”), present the data you collected (“John told me his family moved to San Jose from Tucson, Arizona”), and conclude with a paragraph reflecting about the process (“it was interesting to hear his family’s migration story, and made me reconsider my own”).

Sample Questions:

What is your name?
Where were you born?
What is your ethnicity?
Regionally, where is your family from?
Tell me about your family’s migration/immigration story…
What generation made the move?
What was special about that generation or family environment that prompted the move?
Do you have family who live far away from you? If so, why?
What are your feelings about immigration to the USA?
What are your thoughts about illegal immigration?
Immigration: are people moving and settling in a nation-state or region to which they are not native.
Migration: is physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups

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Is it possible to appreciate both cultivated and vernacular music?
After viewing the performances and contemplating their significance, formulate a thesis statement that defines,
in your opinion, the relationship between cultivated and vernacular music. Your THESIS must make a
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STATEMENT that unites cultivated and vernacular music in some way, in spite of their obvious differences.
Thesis statement should include both the identification of a shared musical element and an opposingcontrasting musical element.

5. Support your thesis statement by the following 3 points of comparison:
   a. Presentation style. Give a detailed description of all aspects of the presentation. What type of atmosphere was
   created at each performance? How did the creation of the atmosphere shape your expectation and response to the
   music? Describe the quality of performance, including energy level, technical ability, and professionalism.
   b. Musical mechanics. Highlight 3 musical elements from each concert (totaling 6 musical elements) and
   include the specific TITLE of the pieces/songs described. Describe in detail aspects of the music that stood out
   to you, linking musical elements to timings (3’44”) from the concert videos. There should be a total of 6 timings
   associated with 6 musical elements. Address musical elements such as form, genre, style, rhythm, dynamics,
   melody, instrumentation, tempo, and mood.
   c. Personal response. How did the music affect you? Excitement, relaxation, laughter, tears?

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