The Portable Community : Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life (Paperback)

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Quest for Community in Bluegrass Festival Culture1. "Bluegrass Breakdown": A Brief Social History of Bluegrass Music and Festival Culture2. "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 Village5. 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 Spaces7. "We’ve Got Grit": Community Resilience, Displacement, and Rebuilding After the FloodConclusion Appendix A: Research MethodsAppendix B: Festival Performance as Social Drama: The Interactionism of Kenneth BurkeIndex