The Portable Community - Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Interactionist Currents
Release date:	February 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Robert Owen Gardner
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-49637-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	1-138-49637-5
Barcode:	9781138496378

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