Ethnomusic culture proposal

The music culture that I am going to study is going to be the acoustic-chill scene in deep ellum. I had known deep ellum as the night scene with usually heavy guitar riffs and people moshing. I had a friend play a small set at a cafe in deep ellum and it was really cool. Many aspiring singer/songwriters gather at the small stage and pour out their hearts in front of total strangers sometimes. I would say the scene in dallas might be interesting compared to other acoustic chill scenes because of its small size compared to all of the events that occur at night, I would like to study the surroundings of the area and see how that affects the style of music expressed at the cafe. It seems inspiring to me to study this because many of the performers come from different backgrounds, there are many college students who play for fun, some who aspire for bigger dreams of being john mayer or something, and even older guys so im excited to see and hear many of the unique sounds an lyrics...I would kinda of but not restrict the style to the movie and music from ONCE, where for some of the performers, writing music is a way of life, they express themselves with it, and almost subside with it going meal to meal hoping one day to make it!

scene from once where the music store owner lets them play on a piano because the lady cant afford one and they realize they click after playing for the first time together...

Music-culture that has influenced me

I have been influenced and a part of a plethora of music cultures, but I will simply focus on at least one major one for this post. A music culture that I have been apart of is the guitar culture, I assume more specifically the western electric guitar culture, although with the internet I have become a part of an online guitar community that spans globally, the community I am apart of is based somewhere in Europe, an has members from all over europe, possibly Japan, China, etc.. The way the guitar culture has influenced me has been on my musical selections for casual listening, bands such as Van Halen-Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, SRV, a I could run the entire gammit. Being apart of the guitar community I haave also developed a love for all types of guitars, valuing the instruments, as collectables and things to revel at. Like a grease monkey for cars, I have been influenced by the guitar culture, spending countless hours at guitarcenter, making jokes on how people should stop playing stairway to heaven and smoke on the water at guitarcenter( especially if they cant play) and attending the dallas guitar show when it comes into town. You get your typically harley guys with cool beards, and old guys who are still in the 80's with there really tight leather pants.