Okay. Maybe you already know this, but if not -- I am in school right now. Happily enough (especially since it’s summer) I have managed to incorporate music even into this academic aspect of my life; I have this class called Music and Sociology.
This is important to the blog because I’m doing a research project on -- yes -- music and sociology. Or, more specifically, the social roles of mp3 blogs. As far as I can tell, nobody else has done much work on this, so I’m gathering pretty much all the evidence or data or whatever you’d like to call it myself. Obviously -- as this is sociology -- this requires the participation of individuals other than myself.
So here’s my request: if you’re here, it logically follows that you’re a blog reader. Even if this is the only mp3 blog you ever look at, please, do me a huge favor and download this questionnaire, fill it out and return it to me. If you write an mp3 blog, too, you can do this one instead. (They're word documents and should download just fine, but if you have trouble, try going here and clicking the appropriate link.)
It’s very easy to do -- I just ask you to tell me some things about why you read mp3 blogs, what (if any) relationships you have with the people who write them, and what you think of music. It doesn’t take very long, either (unless you want to get very detailed, which I have no objection to). And it’s for a very good cause -- me not flunking out of college. Please. And please don’t decide not to do this because of the assumption that everyone else will -- because I think in this case, everyone is not all that many people, and I need as many of these as I can get.
As advance thanks/reward for your assistance, I am going to give you not just one but two nice mp3s, both of which I like very much, but haven’t posted or even really talked about because neither of the bands live in
The first of these two bands, Slumber Party, is a bunch of girls who live in I Don’t Mind is from their first, self-titled album -- the one I don’t have. So I don’t know what the rest of the album sounds like, but this song is great -- very spacey, in every possible sense of the word -- and so are the three other albums they’ve put out since then.
Esiotrot is composed of seven (I think) boys and girls who live in Sally Likes the Beach Boys is a very short song from their first EP, which was put out back when there were only four members in the band. They’ve done some more things since then, including the simultaneously sweet and (a bit) creepy Emily Scott (the name of the song, not a person), which you can stream on myspace.
And again -- please take a few minutes to fill out this questionnaire for me. (Tell your friends about it, too.) I’ll let you read the paper when I’m done and everything -- I promise. Mange tak for alle.
--DL--
Blog Reader Questionnaire
Blog Writer QuestionnaireI Don't Mind (Slumber Party)Sally Likes the Beach Boys (Esiotrot)
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