Wednesday, March 31, 2010

I'm Done...With That.


Ethnomusicologist, Jaap Kunst

Last night I finished transcribing my final interview! I'm elated, although nowhere near done. I've still got the whole thing to write, you know! I've been devoting so much time to transcribing, I almost feel like I'm not sure what do to now, sitting down at my desk. I know what to do, and I'll dig into it as soon as I finish this little update. I have a bit more thematic coding of my blog writing (see this post) and of my beautiful interview transcripts. That should be pretty quick and simple. Additionally, I have yet to share most of the audio files of the interviews with the folks I interviewed. Not for stinginess, just because there's a bunch of stuff to do, and I haven't gotten to it yet. So that's what I'll be sifting through over the next week or so.

I've got 80+ hours of audio recordings from interviews and 25 hours of video from various events in Detroit. I often get asked who I've interviewed, so here's a list. It's not going to grow much over the next while, but after I get my dissertation completed, there will definitely be more interviewing in preparation for the book.

Aaron-Carl
Adam Francesconi
Adriel Thornton
Alan Oldham
Angie Schwendenman
Andrew Babson
AUX88 - Keith Tucker and Tommy Hamilton
John Bileebob Williams
Bill Stacey (DJ Seoul)
Brendan M. Gillen
Brian Gillespie
Bruce Bailey
Carlos Souffront
Cornelius Harris
Erika Sherman
Felton Howard
Gehrik Mohr
Jason Huvare
John Johr
Kelli Hand
Kyle Hall
Marcellus Pittman
Mike Banks
Mike Clark
Minx
Pirahnahead
Rick Wilhite
Scheherazade Parrish
Stacey Hale
Theo Parrish
Todd Osborn
Terri McQueen
Zana Smith

All right, I'll be back in a minute...

2 comments:

Jean Dorsey said...

I think transcribing interviews is one of the most tedious tasks while working on a dissertation or thesis paper. And some problems will come up like crappy voice reception, the surrounding sound is much louder than the voice, and much more that can be bad in the dissertation. Anyway, working on it can really be hard so it is good that you manage to handle 80+ hours of audio recording. You certainly deserve what you are getting today.

Doris Davis said...

I think transcribing interviews is one of the most tedious tasks while working on a dissertation or thesis paper. And some problems will come up like crappy voice reception, the surrounding sound is much louder than the voice, and much more that can be bad in the dissertation writing. Anyway, working on it can really be hard so it is good that you manage to handle 80+ hours of audio recording. You certainly deserve what you are getting today.

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