Beschreibung:
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.
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