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 === CAR SOUND CULTURE MAIN===
+{{topic>car_culture }} \\
-[[Car Culture Bibliography]] \\
 [[ucla summer|Competitive Edge Program Research Topics]] \\
-A critical evaluation of what the various elements of car sound culture are. Car sound culture is the appreciation, knowledge, and obsession with the ways that cars engines, horns, and acoustic landscape sound. It is also the identification as a car enthusiast and the various way this culture builds self identity. Largely this culture manifests itself with the ways that people build and collect cars, appreciate engines and their sounds, and how these people find community in these activities.
+===RESEARCH NOTES===
+==LOOSE THOUGHTS==
+sound of horses in cars, for example horse power and the mustang, elements of elegance in design being compared to racehorses \\
+who designed vs 'we designed' \\
+what are the names lost to history, specific labor and people in the design process. Do the people who design electric car sounds have names? \\
+inceptions points vs points of incursion. There are lots of incursive elements of car design between the car owners and the car designers.
+think more about political and economic perspectives \\
+How do these things relate to race and class? \\
+How does car sound relate to larger topics of urban sound like the sounds of planes, maintenance (lawn mowers air blowers), and construction?
+what about sounds of war?\\
+Explain more about the idea of a cocoon and how independence relate to sound\\
+object travelling across space, like a spaceship \\
+Fahrvergnügen-- pleasure of driving, as popularized from Volkswagen ads from the 1960s ((https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fahrvergn%C3%BCgen))\\
+how do car commercials play into all of this? watch some of them? \\
+Add more quoted text into the literature review \\
+Be more specific of the time period, is it 1920- today? \\
+A more clean chronology will help \\
+Use "this" less across all texts \\
+What questions are you asking of your data? \\
+Look for parallel phenomena, urban Ethnomusicology \\
+==INTRO==
+Cars are a musical instrument. We see this displayed in many ways, from the use of their sound in media, their importance in construction of private space and identity, as a sonic experience the defined modernity, the ways in which they are commodified, 'tuned', and designed to pair with an image of their users much like how the calls of songbirds match the species.
+An evaluation of what the various elements of car sound culture are. Define car sound culture is the appreciation, knowledge, and obsession with the ways that cars engines, horns, and acoustic landscape sound. It is also the identification as a car enthusiast and the various way this culture builds self identity. This culture manifests itself with the ways that people identify with cars, appreciate engines and their sounds, consume media with the presence of cars, are marketed cars, and how these people find community in these activities.
+Is this a survey of the elements of sound culture or is there a central argument?
+==Prefacing==
+A definition of car sound culture \\
+Defining the scope (when, where, and who) of the car culture im talking about\\
+Define the scope of time period \\
+Contextualize car culture in wider American culture \\
+==Arguments==
+Car sounds play an integral part of a contemporary car culture \\
+Car culture frames identity in respects to cars \\
+Car culture is an important and prominent part of American culture. \\
+This culture is both one of convergence and active consumer design \\
+This culture is well represented in media, and there is an element of sound to all of it \\
+==Observations==
+Literal, stylistic, and symbolic car sound is an important part of car culture \\
+Media uses the sound of cars to mean things outside the meaning of a car itself \\
+Car sounds since at least the 2000s are actively designed \\
+Car sounds relate to target demographics \\
 ===Questions===
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 in which ways these sounds are abstracted in media \\
+==Radio==
+Songs are frequently designed for radio, is this also designing music to be listened to in the car? \\
+Is this an important element of why cars, sound, and music are so interrelated? \\
 ===Topics that came up in conversation with Ray===
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 ===NOTES===
-[[car culture bibliography]] \\
 ==background==
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-{{tag>[ucla instrument essay all]}} \\
+{{tag>[ucla instrument essay car_culture all]}} \\