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Rank Strangers: Performing the Bluegrass Repertoire in the Contemporary Midwest
Rank Strangers: Performing the Bluegrass Repertoire in the Contemporary Midwest
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152714
- ISBN
- 9798384019602
- DDC
- 792
- 저자명
- Grimm, Heather.
- 서명/저자
- Rank Strangers: Performing the Bluegrass Repertoire in the Contemporary Midwest
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 351 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Manning, Susan.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약How do performance and reception change when a commercial popular music genre, ever-changing in response to audience taste, gets re-framed as a traditional, static one? This dissertation addresses this question using bluegrass music, an acoustic subgenre of country music created in the 1940s. Through revisionist readings of the writings of early non-southern advocates of bluegrass music, this dissertation demonstrates how the tastemakers of the 1960s folk revival re-coded bluegrass as a genre born of isolated white, male, working-class, rural southerners making music outside of capitalist production systems--not of diversely influenced modern people on the move. This altered conception excludes performers who don't fit this mold, and freezes those who do in an ever-present past. As scholars of the folklore movement and the folk revival have previously shown, these fantasies of authenticity crumble with sufficient familiarity with the cultural product at hand. So, although those early advocates of bluegrass music eventually became familiar enough with bluegrass' production to no longer espouse those fantasies of authenticity, the effects of their re-coding of bluegrass music reached a wide audience in the 1960s and 70s, and continue to shape public perception today. Instead of an easily debunkable blip in the music's reception history, I argue that folk revival era expectations of bluegrass have come to shape its contemporary reception, as evidenced by the development of the content and context of bluegrass performance. To do so, I investigate three bluegrass venues across the Midwest, attending to multiple aspects of bluegrass performance: performer's self-presentation, most often through stage talk and costuming, performers' song repertoire, and the physical spaces in which performances happen, which allow for ample interaction between audience and performer. I encompass all these elements under the theoretical category of the bluegrass repertoire. While there is a current movement in the bluegrass world to appreciate a more expansive history of bluegrass, it has so far been unsuccessful in re-coding the genre to include those outside of the narrow normative regional, class, race, and gender conception of bluegrass musicians. This dissertation shows how the performance of bluegrass music sustains these narrow expectations, preventing broad uptake of a more inclusive understanding of the genre."Rank Strangers" draws from participant-observation conducted in ticketed concerts, rehearsals, and jam sessions, as well as interviews with fans and performers. In Chapter 1, I examine how the folk revival re-coding of bluegrass altered its performance and framing in the early years of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana, and in Chapter 2, I demonstrate the legacy of that history on contemporary performance at that same site. Chapter 3 investigates regional origin (one of the defining identity categories of normatively conceptualized bluegrass musicians) and how it is contested through performance at the local level at a concert series outside of Chicago. Lastly, Chapter 4 examines the American Roots Music Ensemble at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, a program attempting to change that normative conception, documenting the barriers it encounters at the institutional, community, and individual levels. I conclude by offering practical suggestions for musicians based on these findings to create performances that encourage audiences to read them outside of romantic paradigms.
- 일반주제명
- Theater
- 일반주제명
- Music
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 일반주제명
- Musical performances
- 키워드
- Bluegrass music
- 키워드
- Folk revival
- 키워드
- Popular music
- 키워드
- Reception
- 키워드
- Repertoire
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Theatre and Drama
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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