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The Portable Community - Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life (Paperback)
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The Portable Community - Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life (Paperback)
Series: Interactionist Currents
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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 bluegrass festival events are significant cultural formations
that shape participants' relationships to their localities. With
specific attention to the ways in which the strength of these
relationships are translated into meaningful sites of community
identity, place, and action following devastating local floods that
destroyed homes and businesses, displacing residents for years, The
Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival
Life sheds light on the strength of such communities when tested
and under external threat. A study of the central role of arts and
music in grappling with social and environmental change, including
their role in facilitating disaster relief and recovery, this
volume will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in
symbolic interactionism, the sociology of music, culture, and the
sociology of disaster.
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