kaiserjr18's blog

There are many genres of communication within the Jazz Band. Most of these, due to the fact that I am a Rat, I have not seen or been apart of. These genres include emails, texts, flyers, and information put online. I myself have only participated with communication dealing with email. Email is a semi-formal to formal way for the members of the band to communicate with each other and with our conductor, Colonel Brodie. Emails between members tend to be semi-formal and are used to relay information about practice for that week. On the other hand emails between members and Colonel Brodie are more formal because he is a superior officer and is given the respect he deserves. Even though i haven’t seen texts first hand that pertain to communication in the Jazz Band. I have an idea what they would be like. Because this genre is used between members and that texts have limited characters this genre will more than likely be informal and lack a good sentence or grammar structure. Another assumption I have about the Jazz Band’s communication is that communication with the public would be very formal as to make the Jazz Band look appealing to others. I hope to able to analyze these genres of communication more as I study the Jazz Band as a Discourse community, but as of now I have a very limited knowledge of communication within the Jazz Band.