I will try my best to offer interviews with a variety of people who have had interesting and unique experiences and "careers" in hardcore throughout the years, whether playing the role of band member, promoter, longtime fan, photographer, or any combination of roles in the community.
What makes my interviews different? I feel that e-mail interviews and similar formats tend to elicit canned responses and limit the scope of what is shared. My aim here is to get a holistic view of hardcore, so I'm opting to audio record all of my interviews. From there, they're transcribed word-for-word (all the "uh"s and "you know"s and everything). For the research papers I'm doing, they are quoted and used in full. For the purposes of this blog, they'll be cleaned up here and there, but only when necessary, and never in a way that would disrupt the original meaning.
It is my policy to keep the content of the interviews, as well as the identity of the interviewees, private until (and only if) the interview is published on this blog. Some of the participants prefer to remain anonymous and won't be on here; some I want to save specifically for my papers; others have consented afterwards to allow me to make the interviews public on this blog.
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