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The Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life book cover

1st Edition

The Portable Community Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life

By Robert Owen Gardner Copyright 2020
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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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. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and participant observation, the author develops the thesis that the relationships, networks, and intimate forms of social interaction in the “portable” community cultivated at... Read more

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

Biography



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

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