If you have, perhaps you can help me with something.

 

My name is Yoshi Ploeger, 23 years of age, currently living in Bournemouth (UK) but originally I am from the Netherlands. I am a fan of Elvis his music, albeit not as big as most here, but I have a huge admiration for his work.

 

To be honest I did not sign up only out of fandom. Currently I am working on my postgraduate dissertation. This research is about the experiences of people who have visited a musical heritage attraction (in the case of Elvis: childhood home, Graceland, Sun Studio). Therefore I would like to ask the members of this forum if there is anybody here who want to help me with my research.

 

What help? You might ask. Well. I am looking for about 6 people who have visited a musical heritage site, most ideally in the past two years. These people I would like to interview (one on one) about this experience. This will not be your average interview with a lot of questions. I will allow you to tell a story (narrative) about the experience(s) you had while visiting a musical heritage site and will only interrupt if something needs clarifying or if you go off-topic a bit too much. Once all interviews are conducted I will examine all data to see if there are similarities (themes) in your experiences, so I can perhaps can construct one narrative of an average experience of a tourist visiting a musical heritage site.

 

Recognizing that such experience can be very personal and sometimes even emotional you (the participant) will not be called by name in the actual report. Any other relevant data will be ‘falsified’ as well. The actual recordings of the interviews and the transcriptions will be saved in two secure places, 1. A password protected file on my computer (which is also password protected) and 2. A back-up will be saved in one of the most secure web-mail services on the internet (www.hushmail.com).

 

If you are willing to help me or have further questions then you can reply in this topic, send me a PM on this website or send an e-mail to yoshiploeger@gmail.com

 

Kind regards,

 

Yoshi Ploeger

 

P.S. I hope this the appropriate place in the forum to post this message, if not I apologize.

 

If you have, perhaps you can help me with something.

 

My name is Yoshi Ploeger, 23 years of age, currently living in Bournemouth (UK) but originally I am from the Netherlands. I am a fan of Elvis his music, albeit not as big as most here, but I have a huge admiration for his work.

 

To be honest I did not sign up only out of fandom. Currently I am working on my postgraduate dissertation. This research is about the experiences of people who have visited a musical heritage attraction (in the case of Elvis: childhood home, Graceland, Sun Studio). Therefore I would like to ask the members of this forum if there is anybody here who want to help me with my research.

 

What help? You might ask. Well. I am looking for about 6 people who have visited a musical heritage site, most ideally in the past two years. These people I would like to interview (one on one) about this experience. This will not be your average interview with a lot of questions. I will allow you to tell a story (narrative) about the experience(s) you had while visiting a musical heritage site and will only interrupt if something needs clarifying or if you go off-topic a bit too much. Once all interviews are conducted I will examine all data to see if there are similarities (themes) in your experiences, so I can perhaps can construct one narrative of an average experience of a tourist visiting a musical heritage site.

 

Recognizing that such experience can be very personal and sometimes even emotional you (the participant) will not be called by name in the actual report. Any other relevant data will be ‘falsified’ as well. The actual recordings of the interviews and the transcriptions will be saved in two secure places, 1. A password protected file on my computer (which is also password protected) and 2. A back-up will be saved in one of the most secure web-mail services on the internet (www.hushmail.com).

 

If you are willing to help me or have further questions then you can reply in this topic, send me a PM on this website or send an e-mail to yoshiploeger@gmail.com

 

Kind regards,

 

Yoshi Ploeger

 

P.S. I hope this the appropriate place in the forum to post this message, if not I apologize.

 

Hiya yoshiploeger, welcome to our Elvis forum, good to see you here. I, myself have never been to Graceland, well not yet anyway, but i am planning on it very soon. Sorry i cannot help you with this but there are a few people on here who have and hopefully can help you with what you are looking for. :cheer:

 

Hi Angel,

 

Thanks for your kind reply :) I will look around to find people who have been there.

 

You do not happen to know a couple of people (by name) who have been there, do you?

 

Oh. And have fun planning your trip to Graceland! I always find planning the trips even more exciting than the actual travel! good luck.

 

 

Hi Angel,

 

Thanks for your kind reply :) I will look around to find people who have been there.

 

You do not happen to know a couple of people (by name) who have been there, do you?

 

Oh. And have fun planning your trip to Graceland! I always find planning the trips even more exciting than the actual travel! good luck.

 

 

If you can get hold of Tilly(Carole) on here, she has been there and also Derick. :cheer:

Thanks! I contacted them :)

Hi YoshiPloeger and welcome to the Elvis forum. As Lesley said, I am lucky enough to have visited Memphis twice. Once in October 2005 and then again for Elvis Week in 2007. I have received your PM and if it helps, I will be happy to answer any questions I can about my visits B-)