"Unique By Nature, Traditional By Choice": Music Initiatives and Social Change in a Rural Appalachian Community

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dc.contributor.advisorRios, Fernandoen_US
dc.contributor.authorTerman, Jennieen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-24T06:21:30Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T06:21:30Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractIn Pocahontas County, West Virginia, a cherished musical heritage exists alongside a continuously changing population, and music initiatives demonstrate the tension between preserving local traditions and embracing diversity. Employing practice theory, concepts of globalization, and an applied ethnomusicological approach, three music initiatives--a historical performance hall, public school music education, and the local community radio station--are investigated in terms of their history, current role in the community, and programming and curricula. These initiatives serve as tools for exploring how the music programming and education in this community reflect outside interests and social changes during the past century and help frame suggestions of how public music initiatives, both in this community and elsewhere, might better respond to social change. With collaboration and an in-depth understanding of the complexities of a population, music initiatives can make positive and effective contributions to communities.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15422
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAppalachiaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEthnoscapeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInitiativesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMusicen_US
dc.title"Unique By Nature, Traditional By Choice": Music Initiatives and Social Change in a Rural Appalachian Communityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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