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Robert W. Fry - Performing Nashville - 9781137504807 - V9781137504807
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Performing Nashville

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Description for Performing Nashville Hardback. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 213 pages, 11 colour illustrations, 11 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; AVGL; JHBS; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .

This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville’s multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city’s influence on the formation and performance of the individual and collective identities of the country-music fan. More importantly, the author discusses the larger issue of country music as a signifier of tradition suggesting that for many visitors, the music serves as a soundtrack, while Nashville serves as a performative space that permits the creation, performance, and remembrance of not only the country-music ... Read more

Performing Nashville will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including tourism studies, leisure studies, ethnomusicology, sociology, folklore and anthropology.

 

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
Series
Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137504807
SKU
V9781137504807
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About Robert W. Fry
Robert W. Fry is Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music in Nashville, USA where he teaches courses in global music, jazz, blues, music in the American South, and music tourism. His current research focuses on music tourism and the role of fan culture in the production of a musical place. 

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