Overview
- Provides a unique insight into the role of the fan in the establishment and realization of a music place
- Includes rich ethnographic data
- Explores the formation and continuance of Nashville as a tourist destination and as a music place
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 tradition, but also various individual and collective traditions and an idealized American identity. Through the theatrics of tourism, Nashville and its connection to country music are performed daily, reinforced through the sound and landscape of country music.
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Nashville
Book Subtitle: Music Tourism and Country Music's Main Street
Authors: Robert W. Fry
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50482-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50480-7Published: 25 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50482-1Published: 13 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 223
Number of Illustrations: 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Music, Tourism Management