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  1. Definition

    1. What is the nature of the problem/issue?

      1. In Short, we are faced with an extremely complicated system(human brain interacting with sound waves) Furthermore, we can only judge how much music is liked by the steam numbers on the output side of the black box zeitgeist.

    2. What exactly is the problem/issue?

      1. The problem is that we currently accept music preference to be a mystical black box.

    3. To what larger class of things or events does it belong?

    4. What are its parts, and how are they related?

    5. Who/what is influencing our definition of this problem/issue?

    6. How/why are these sources/beliefs influencing our definition?

Stasis Theory

3.Quality

  1. How serious is the problem/issue?

    1. The issue isn’t very serious, but it is impactful

  2. Whom might it affect (stakeholders)?

    1. It might affect musicians and music listeners, which is most people

  3. What happens if we don't do anything?

    1. If we don’t do anything, we will continue to be in the dark about how to make good music.

  4. What are the costs of solving the problem/issue?

    1. The main cost is time spent researching.

  5. Who/what is influencing our determination of the seriousness of this problem/issue?

    1. Music journalism

  6. How/why are these sources/beliefs influencing our determination?

  7. What action should action be taken?

    1. We have to learn!

  8. Who should be involved in helping to solve the problem/address the issue?

    1. Anyone

  9. What needs to happen to solve this problem/address this issue?

  10. Who/what is influencing our determination of what to do about this problem/issue?

2. Fact

  1. Did something happen?

    1. Not specifically, but music is important to society.

  2. What are the facts?

    1. We basically only know sales numbers.

  3. There is a problem

  4. How did it begin and what are its causes?

    1. Not enough people have taken the time to explore the intricacies of what determines and guides musical tastes

  5. What changed to create the problem/issue?

    1. The internet indirectly caused the problem, by creating a platform, it is responsible for a “genre explosion” giving a larger number of artists to exist, opening new niches. This showed that music taste is not collective, or semi-collective, even though it had appeared that way before the internet

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