Guadalupe Bueno-Ventura

Ensure safety around equipment & wires
Efficiency in setting up and tearing down equipment properly
Maintaining professionalism at events
Cooperation with fellow technicians & event runners
Ensure equipment is stored correctly
On standby during student-run events for troubleshooting & management of equipment

Upkeep office machines, performance spaces, and instruments

Help performers with audio and lighting needs

Create, retrieve, and distribute programs

Assist Music & English secretaries with tasks

Help music department faculty with needs in the office

In this research paper, I explored the influence that the amount of cultural exposure has on a person’s music taste. I also considered the impact that age has on this relationship. I read and cited articles that dealt with this area of ethnomusicology and considered them in my study. From my research, I gather that there are factors from culture and human interaction and experience that can affect how people interpret music, like taste cultures and music criticism. My findings, based on a short survey that I conducted, support my hypothesis and further justified the undeniable connection between culture and music. My research question of how the amount of exposure to ethnic culture and backgrounds affect someone’s music taste that I explore in this paper gives me an idea of how factors of identity, like culture and ethnicity, can stem into the unnoticeable parts of life and how strongly it plays a role for everybody.