The Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life

ISBN-13: 9781032174204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Robert Owen Gardner

Opis

This book explores the various ways in which individuals use music and culture to understand and respond to changes in their natural and built environments.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Quest for Community in Bluegrass Festival Culture 1. "Bluegrass Breakdown": A Brief Social History of Bluegrass Music and Festival Culture 2. "What Have They Done to The Old Home Place?": Family, Home, and Kinship in the "New" American West.  3. Welcome Home I: Building Place in the Bluegrass Festival Camp 4. Welcome Home II: Performing Place in the Vernacular Village 5. The Portable Community: Inclusion, Intimacy, and Simplicity in Bluegrass Festival Life 6. "The Festival World is So Much Better Than the Real World": Performing Self and Identity in Festival Spaces 7. "We’ve Got Grit": Community Resilience, Displacement, and Rebuilding After the Flood. Conclusion. Appendix A: Research Methods. Appendix B: Festival Performance as Social Drama: The Interactionism of Kenneth Burke. Index

O autorze

Robert Owen Gardner is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Linfield College, USA.