The U󰈻󰈩 󰈢󰇿 Mus󰈎󰇹: A

Con󰉏󰈩󰈹s󰇽󰉃i󰈡󰈞 w󰈏󰉃󰈋
Pro󰇾󰈩󰈼s󰈢󰈸 Wa󰈘󰈩󰇵d
Ras󰈊󰈎󰇶󰈏
COMM 410

Melissa Torres, Catalina Melgoza, and

Kenya Nunez
 In󰉃󰈹od󰉉󰇹󰉄󰈏on
- As 󰈚u󰈼󰈎c 󰇵󰈝󰉄hu󰈻󰈎󰇽󰈼t󰈻, 󰉓e w󰈩󰈸󰇵
in󰉃󰈩󰈹󰇵s󰉃e󰇶 󰈎n 󰉒󰈋󰇽t 󰈸o󰈘󰈩 m󰉊󰈻i󰇸 p󰈗󰈀󰉙s
in 󰈻󰉄󰉉d󰇵󰈝󰉄s’ 󰈗i󰉐󰈩s.
- We w󰈩󰈸󰇵 a󰇻l󰈩 󰉃󰈢 i󰈞t󰈩󰈸󰉐󰈏ew P󰈸󰈡󰇿󰇵s󰈻o󰈹
Wal󰈩󰇵󰇷 Ra󰈋s󰈎󰇷󰈏 a󰇻󰈡󰉊t 󰉃󰈋e
im󰈥󰈡󰈹t󰇽󰈝󰇸e 󰈡f 󰈚󰉊󰈼ic 󰈀󰈝󰇶 󰇽n󰇷 i󰉄s
re󰈗󰈀󰉄󰇵d 󰉃e󰇸h󰈝󰈡󰈘󰈢g󰉘.
- Pro󰇾󰈩󰈼s󰈢󰈸 Ra󰈼h󰈎󰇷󰈏 󰈋as 󰈥󰈩󰈹f󰈢󰈸󰈛ed
ma󰈝󰉙 s󰉃󰉉󰇶󰈏es 󰈸󰈩󰈈󰇽r󰇷i󰈞g 󰈚󰉉󰈼󰈏c a󰈝󰇶
he 󰈻󰈋󰈀r󰇵󰇷 󰈋is fi󰈝󰇶󰈎n󰈇󰈼 w󰈏󰉃󰈋 us.
 Pro󰇾󰈩󰈼s󰈢󰈸 Ra󰈼h󰈎󰇷󰈏’󰈼 Res󰈩󰇽󰈸󰇸h
- Qu󰈀l󰈏󰉃a󰉄󰈎v󰇵 󰇼a󰈼󰈩d 󰈸󰇵󰈼e󰈀r󰇹󰈋
- Mus󰈎󰇹 󰈜󰇵󰇸h󰈝o󰈘󰈡g󰈏e󰈻: W󰈋y a󰈸󰈩 󰈦󰇵op󰈗󰈩 󰈏󰈞te󰈸󰈩󰈼t󰇵󰇷
in 󰇹󰈩󰈹t󰇽i󰈝 󰉄󰈩c󰈊󰈞󰈢lo󰈇󰈎󰇵󰈼?
- Cas󰈻󰈩󰉅󰇵 Tap󰈩󰈻
- C󰉍s - Wha󰉃 󰇶󰈡 w󰇵 󰇷o 󰉓󰈎t󰈊 󰇽󰈘l o󰇾 󰉄h󰈩󰈻󰇵
C󰉍s?
- C󰉍s -󰇴e󰈡p󰈗󰇵 W󰈋o Ar󰈩 P󰈗󰇽󰉙in󰈇 C󰉍󰈼 in 󰉃󰈋󰈩
Ye󰈀r 2020
- Mus󰈎󰇹 U󰈼󰇽ge
- Vin󰉘󰈘 󰈤󰈩c󰈢󰈸󰇶s - T󰈊e 󰈈r󰈡󰈢󰉏e󰈼 󰈀n󰇷 󰉄h󰇵
me󰈻󰈼󰈀g󰇵󰈻 e󰈞g󰈸󰈀󰉐󰇵d i󰈝 󰉄h󰈩󰈚
Res󰈩󰇽󰈸󰇸h Qu󰈩󰈻󰉄󰈏on󰈻:
- Wha󰉃 󰈀󰈹󰇵 t󰈊e 󰇸󰈡m󰈚󰈢󰈞 us󰈩󰈻 󰈢󰇿 mu󰈻󰈎󰇸 󰇽mo󰈝󰈈
s󰉃u󰇶󰈩n󰉃󰈼 󰇽t C󰈠U󰉆?
- Can 󰈚󰉉󰈼󰈏c 󰇼e 󰉉󰈼󰇵d a󰈻 󰈀 󰉄󰈢ol 󰈡󰈸 󰇽
di󰈻󰉄r󰈀󰇹󰉄󰈏on?
- How 󰇷󰈡 󰈦󰇵op󰈗󰈩 󰇵󰈞ga󰈇󰈩 󰉓󰈏t󰈊 󰈛us󰈎󰇹 󰉄h󰇵󰈻e
da󰉘󰈼?
- How 󰇷󰈡 󰈦󰇵op󰈗󰈩 󰈼󰈢ci󰈀󰈗󰈏󰉜e w󰈎󰉃󰈋 m󰉊󰈻i󰇸?
 Met󰈊󰈡󰇶s
Sur󰉏󰈩󰉙s In󰉃e󰈹v󰈎󰇵󰉒󰈼
For one of his studies,
To determine why people
Professor Rashidi
were buying CD’s,
interviewed record store
questionnaires and
owners to determine
surveys were used to
how cassette tape sales
collect data.
were doing.

How 󰇷󰈎󰇶 p󰈸󰈢󰇿es󰈻󰈡󰈹 Professor Rashidi used the Snowball Effect to find participants for his
Ras󰈊󰈎󰇶󰈏 fin󰇷 research. He would ask past interviewees to convince some of their
pa󰈸󰉄󰈎c󰈏󰈥a󰈞t󰈻? friends or family to participate in his surveys or future interviews.
In󰉃e󰈹󰈩s󰉃󰈏󰈞g Fi󰈝󰇶s
Professor Rashidi discovered that music can be
both a tool and a distraction.

● It can be used as a tool when trying to express

your creativity and even be used in advertising.
○ It can also be used to socialize with others.
● Music can become a distraction when it’s
used to procrastinate or distract us from our
responsibilities.
Tha󰈝󰈕 y󰈡󰉊!