Performing Nashville: Music Tourism and Country Music’s Main Street (Leisure Studies in a Global Era)

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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 at the formation and performance of the person and collective identities of the country-music fan. More importantly, the creator discusses the larger issue of country music as a signifier of tradition suggesting that for lots of visitors, the music serves as a soundtrack, at the same time as Nashville serves as a performative space that permits the creation, performance, and remembrance of not only the country-music tradition, but in addition quite a lot of individual and collective traditions and an idealized American identity. In the course of the theatrics of tourism, Nashville and its connection to country music are performed day by day, reinforced In the course of the sound and landscape of country music.

Performing Nashville shall 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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