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Need to interview people who go Crobar, Spirit, Pacha, Avalon, etc.
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| fotoaddict |
Folks.. I'm passing this along for my friend Stefanie.. Many of you have met her out with me (or maybe without..) at Pacha, Crobar, Spirit, and Sullivan Room to name a few.. hell, I even met her @ Crobar during a Sander kleinenberg night back in '05.. But I digress..
The rest of the text below this is her wording.. I can vouch for this project being legit. She's made clubbing, parties, and the surrounding laws into her life/career.. Please help her to help us in the long run..
-Pete / fotoaddict
(if you want to ask me questions about this, that's fine too..)
Stefanie's words:
I am a grad student writing my thesis about clubbers in NYC who go to megaclubs (like the ones mentioned in the subject line). Megaclubs - because they are big and commercial and "anti-underground" - cause a lot of debates within the dance music community, and yet many people still experience dance music at them, not just in New York but globally.
I am looking for people who currently go out to these places. That doesn't mean that you go to these clubs to the exclusion of all other venues, but that you've been to one or more of them at least 6-7 times in 2006 - and plan to go again in 2007. (And I know some of them are now closed.)
You also have to be willing to do an in-person, sound recorded interview with me. I will be asking about how you got into dance music, your drug use (past and current), other clubs you go to / went to, and your thoughts about the music & dancing. Obviously it will all be confidential.
If you're interested, or have more questions, please email me at [email protected] I will send you more information about my project, including all the boring official stuff like my name & my adviser's name, release forms, etc.
Thank you, Stefanie
edit regarding confidentially:
No one hears the interviews!!!!! No one but me(Stefanie), as I transcribe them. This is actually all covered in the confidentiality statement. I record them, I keep the recorder in a locked file drawer, I keep the files on my password-protected computer, and once they are transcribed I erase them from the recorder & my computer. I save them under fake names.
The only reason I’m recording them in the first place is so I remember what people said because my pathetically overloaded brain definitely wouldn’t. I will quote them in the thesis but I won’t be using real names.
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| euphoria |
| quote: | | Originally posted by fotoaddict You also have to be willing to do an in-person, sound recorded interview with me. I will be asking about how you got into dance music, your drug use (past and current |
I couldn't imagine why anyone would let someone record incriminating information regarding they're drug use to a complete stranger. |
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| fotoaddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by euphoria
I couldn't imagine why anyone would let someone record incriminating information regarding they're drug use to a complete stranger. |
1.. I'll pass that along to Stefanie.. And post any response..
2.. I think the taping is because this is for her Masters thesis. I'm assuming that she has to have "documented" sources for her materials/references. I'm also assuming that recordings won't be identifiable other than by voice. i.e. no names.
3.. Talking about drug use isn't illegal.. but you said incriminating, and I'd agree it'd make me second guess a complete stranger asking me things (though I have filled out surveys at events for complete strangers..)
4.. I've known Stef for a year and a half now.. been to Ibiza with her, and can vouch for her being someone trying to make the dance culture a better place, especially in the states.. Her day job is helping to reform "policies".. (Rockefeller drug laws and cabaret licenses to name a few)
-Peter |
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| kaykay2005ga |
| quote: | Originally posted by euphoria
I couldn't imagine why anyone would let someone record incriminating information regarding they're drug use to a complete stranger. |
ummmm yea no thanks, I'll pass!! Good Luck though stefanie! |
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| jdat |
Pay my flight and I'll give you my reasons to going there as well as all these so called commercial clubs in the Uk, France, Germany, Switzerland etc which I have been to in the past year.
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| chanman7483 |
| I think people would be more inclined if they were paid for their time. I did something similiar for another group a year back. I went 4 times and each time was paid 35-50 dollars for my time. |
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| fotoaddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by chanman7483
I think people would be more inclined if they were paid for their time. I did something similar for another group a year back. I went 4 times and each time was paid 35-50 dollars for my time. |
I've done psychology studies where I was paid.. Those are different though, they tend to come with research money/grants/...
This being her Masters thesis is a step towards her potentially doing studies like that in the future..
If any of you are in grad/School, you can guess the unfortunately likelihood of payment considering it would have to come out of her pocket..
-Peter |
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| CooLKiD |
| quote: | Originally posted by chanman7483
I think people would be more inclined if they were paid for their time. I did something similiar for another group a year back. I went 4 times and each time was paid 35-50 dollars for my time. |
or you can always be helpfull and do it for free.... i would of done it but im a full time student and i have work every day |
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| pyro264jb |
| Considering she has to come on here to find clubbers show to me she is pretty out of touch with the scene herself. I can ring off like 15 names right now of (close friends) who would do this for me. Why is she righting her thesis on a scene she isn't really part of herself? |
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| StanVoid |
i guess i'll share my NY clubbing experience to start things off:
Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it. |
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| fotoaddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by pyro264jb
Considering she has to come on here to find clubbers show to me she is pretty out of touch with the scene herself. I can ring off like 15 names right now of (close friends) who would do this for me. Why is she righting her thesis on a scene she isn't really part of herself? |
She is part of the scene in that she goes to many of the events. She has only been in NYC for a year and a half though, (LA for undergrad) and the scene here is perhaps too friendly to newcomer women. She goes to clubs more for the music and to dance than anything else.. And unfortunately the typical clubber in nyc sucks (we all know the demographics i'm referring to) and she's had many unpleasant folks attempt to mate with her on the dancefloor.. so her usual MO at a club in nyc is to find a good spot to listen/dance, without crossflow traffic, and avoid talking to anyone she doesn't already know..
She's actually met probably 20+ NYTA's through me.. And some TOTA's at the spring PVD event last year.. But considering her work (full time) and grad school (full time) she hasn't had whole gobs of extra time to develop the kind of relationships with people in nyc which would constitute the "15 names close friends" you refer to having a list of.. Thus my proxy of her request to the group..
Just to note, I believe in her work enough that I have no problem addressing the various (and valid) concerns raised here..
-Peter |
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| djquick83 |
| quote: | Originally posted by euphoria
I couldn't imagine why anyone would let someone record incriminating information regarding they're drug use to a complete stranger. |
Its not incriminating to talk about it. Tons of former addicts come on TV to talk about previous drug use etc. As long as u dont do it during the interview while ure on video, shouldnt be a problem. LOL. Besides, its anonymous anyways. Then again, u guys might end up on PBS while ure parents are in the same room watching TV. :p :D :eek: :wtf: |
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