The Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life
- Author: Gardner, Robert Owen
Book
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Contents
- 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