A central tenet in sociological theory is the alteration of society by technology. One product of this historical-economic change has been labelled &dquo;massification,&dquo; wherein social units are conceptualized as being on the decline (for a discussion of the origins of this product, see Gusfield, 1962). One school, described by William Kornhauser (1959: 22) as the &dquo;democratic,&dquo; championed the opinion that associations and other nonelite institutions and groups must be balanced and insulated against the rise of an elitist entity &dquo;bent on the mobilization of a population.&dquo; This argumentation received considerable attention from political analysts examining the rise to power of Hitler and Stalin and the establishment of totalitarian regimes (see Arendt, 1951; Selznick, 1952). Another characterization of this process was derived from the &dquo;aristocratic&dquo; or &dquo;elitist&dquo; school, led by Ortega y Gasset, which maintained that aristocrats experienced a lost of exclusiveness, thus leading to mass participation in cultural and political life (Kornhauser, 1959: 21). This thesis, unlike

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Songwriting as Inquiry and Action: Emotion, Narrative Identity, and Authenticity in Folk Music Culture

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iii Acknowledgements---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iv Dedication ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------v List of Tables -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ix List of Figures -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x List of Acronyms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------xi 1.0 INTRODUCTION------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.1 MODERNITY’S LIMITS, COMMUNITY RESILIENCE AND THE PROMISE OF LOCAL FESTIVALS: A RATIONALE FOR EXPLORATORY STUDY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.1.1 Assumptions and Rationale-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 1.1.2 Research Questions and Objectives ---------------------------------------------------------------------------5 1.2 INTRODUCING THE RESEARCH DESIGN: A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO EXPLORATORY CASE STUDIES OF TWO MUSIC FESTIVALS IN SOUTHERN MANITOBA -------------------------------------------------------------------------5 1.2.1 Constructivism, Exploratory Case Study, and Grounded Theory ------------------------------------------5 1.2.2 Situating the Case Studies --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9 1.3 RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS AND GAPS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------10 1.3.1 Academic Contributions --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 1.3.2 Practical Contributions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11 1.3.3 Research Boundaries and Limitations ----------------------------------------------------------------------12 1.4 OUTLINING THE THESIS STRUCTURE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------12 2.0 COMMUNITY AND LOCALISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL MODERNITY: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND RATIONALE FOR LOCALIST INQUIRY -----15 2.

Celebrating Community: Local Music Festivals and Sustainable Relocalization in Southern Manitoba

This thesis is concerned with the history of folk music collecting in America and seeks to demonstrate the overriding importance of the political, socio – cultural, intellectual, and technological contexts on this work of folk music collecting. It does so via an examination the work of five of the principal folk music collectors in America in the 19th and 20th centuries: Francis Child, Cecil Sharp, John Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Harry Smith, arguing that the work of each of them was impacted by various contexts which were central to their theories of folk music, their collecting methodologies, and what they did with the material they collected. Each of these collectors, whose work was governed by the context in which they were working, introduced transformations in the theory, practice, and output of folk music collecting. These transformations are held to represent the American collecting tradition, and are in fact what define the American collecting tradition and allow it to continue developing as a discipline from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

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'I saw America changed through music': An examination of the American collecting tradition

OBSERVERS OF THE SO-CALLED "COUNTER CULTURE" have tended to portray this phenomenon as a new and isolated event. Theodore Roszak, as well as numerous music and art historians, have come to view the "counter culture" as a new reaction to technical expertise and the embourgeoisment of growing segments of the American people.2 This position, it would appear, is basically indicative of the intellectual "blind men and the elephant" couplet, where a social fact or event is examined apart from other structural phenomena. Instead, it is our contention that the "counter culture" or Abbie Hoffman's "Woodstock Nation" is an emergent reality or a product of all that came before, sui generis. More simply, the "counter culture" can best be conceptualized as part of a long historical-intellectual progression beginning with the "Garden of Eden" image of man. The theme of man removed from the state of nature has recurred throughout Judeo-Christian-Greco thought. Rousseau, Hobbes, Locke, Calvin, and nearly all social philosophers and metaphysicians have chosen to idealize an existence prior to primordial man when all was well, and life was simple and free of the "social nausea" ascribed to us by the existentialists. Socrates urged the young to adopt an ascetic style of life. This sentiment was repeated by early Catholic theologians, particularly Francis of Assisi. The European Romanticists, in the wake of Rousseau, lauded the "noble savage." In North America, James Fenimore Cooper exhibited a preoccupation with the hero of the wilderness. The transcendentalists of the mid-nineteenth century, Thoreau and Emerson, deified the man behind the plow. The force of these arguments led to some action. For example, the writings of such German Romanticists as Joseph von Eichendorff and Nikolaus Lenau produced the Wandervoigeln, a movement

The Folk Music Revival and the Counter Culture: Contributions and Contradictions

Norwegian Settlers in Alberta@@@Danish Settlements on the Canadian Prairies: Folk Traditions, Immigrant Experiences, and Local History@@@The Swedish Community at Eriksdale, Manitoba@@@Roles of Magic and Healing: The Tietaja in the Memorates and Legends of Canadian Finns

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The Folk Music Revival and the Counter Culture: Contributions and Contradictions

Norwegian Settlers in Alberta@@@Danish Settlements on the Canadian Prairies: Folk Traditions, Immigrant Experiences, and Local History@@@The Swedish Community at Eriksdale, Manitoba@@@Roles of Magic and Healing: The Tietaja in the Memorates and Legends of Canadian Finns

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