When listening listening to a piece of music..., one cannot help but be struck by all the variations in tone and sound. We know that music, whether it be jazz, popular, or classical, is composed of a series of notes, some played fast, some slow, some loud, others soft, sometimes played in one key, sometimes in another, often with movement back and forth between keys. Even pauses have purpose and are part of the sound. It is the playing of these notes, with all of their variations and in coordinated sequences, that gives music its sense of movement, rhythm, fluidity, and continuity.To us, process is like a piece of music. It represents the rhythm, changing and repetitive forms, pauses, interruptions, and varying movements that make up sequences of action/interaction...
~Straus & Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory, p. 164
By the way, the music on random play on the perryPod while I was reading this chapter:
Be Still My Beating Heart-Sting
Thickness-Jill Scott
(Not Just) Knee Deep-Funkadelic
Love Is Blindness-Cassandra Wilson
American Woman-Lenny Kravitz
Sweet and Lovely-Thelonius Monk Quartet
Break You Off-The Roots
Black Orpheus-Regina Carter
Agua de Beber-Al Jarreau
Cisco Kid-War
Wholy Holy-Aretha Franklin
Poetry Man-Zap Mama
"Autumn": II Adagio Molto (Vivaldi Concerto in F Major)-Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Be Real Black for Me-Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
Chant-Robert Glasper
Freedom-George Michael
Bada Bing-Danger Doom
Love Calls-Kem
Flamenco Sketches-Miles Davis
If, indeed, process is music, hopefully my own process of coding for process will turn out to have been more holy, sweet and lovely and not so much blindness, war, and doom. (Previous "Basics of GTM" post: Questions for Dummies.)
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