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Author:   Robert Owen Gardner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138496378

ISBN 10:   1138496375
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   21 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"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"

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

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