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Bluegrass And Old-Time In Catalonia: An Ethnographic Case Study Of Aesthetic Communitas, Michael J. Luchtan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is an ethnographic case study of a musical community in Catalonia centered around the performance of bluegrass and old-time music. By using Victor and Edith Turners’ ideas of normative communitas, this paper identifies an aesthetic communitas model which describes a community centered around a performative genre. Through participant observation in the 16th Annual Al Ras Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival and interviews with local musicians, fans, venue owners, and luthiers, the ethnographic narrative details the characteristics of the aesthetic communitas in Catalonia and searches for associations of Appalachia that accompany the cross-cultural manifestation of bluegrass and old-time music …

Building Eden, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Ralph Deigh is the most famous vernacular American architect you've never heard of. After a military career spanning two wars and struggles with homelessness and PTSD, he is invited to design an entirely new rural community for the 21st century. Twin disasters (fire and flood) in Dare County, West Virginia, set up the circumstances for him to join with Rosemary Mueller and the wealthy Ohio-based Mueller Foundation and a mysterious group of local Dare County residents led by Adam Sennett, County Clerk of Dare County. Together, they design and build the new town of Eden, West Virginia.

The whole story …

Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1202. Collection of papers written by students in Professor Barry Kaufkins’ Foodways class (FLK/ANTH 388) at Western Kentucky University. While a majority of the papers focus on Easter traditions, other topics of note include immigrant foodways traditions, fundraising efforts, community organizations, tailgating, and sorority life. Papers also include photographs taken by students.

Disaster And Survival, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Disaster and Survival. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. This banner will be on display at the Portsmouth Public Library from December, 2018 - August, 2019.

Gathering, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Gathering. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. This banner will be on display at the Southern Ohio Medical Center Life Center & Connex from December, 2018 - August, 2019.

Conservation, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Conservation. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. This banner will be on display at the Shawnee State Lodge & Conference Center from December, 2018 - August, 2019.

Recovery, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Recovery. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. The banner host site will be announced at a later date.

Everyday Artistry, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Everyday Artistry. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. This banner will be on display at the Southern Ohio Museum & Cultural Center from December, 2018 - August, 2019.

Returning, Regeneration And Newcomers, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Returning, Regeneration and Newcomers. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. This banner will be on display at the Clark Memorial Library, Shawnee State University from December, 2018 - August, 2019.

Ohio Field Schools, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Ohio Field Schools. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. This banner will be on display at the Ohio State University Extension Office - Scioto County from December, 2018 - August, 2019.

Intergenerational Relationships, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Intergenerational Relationships. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. This banner will be on display at the Northwest High School from December, 2018 - August, 2019.

Responding To Community Needs, Center For Folklore Studies And Ohio Field Schools

Placemaking Traveling Exhibit Banners

33" X 88" banner titled Responding to Community Needs. The banner is one of nine banners that are a part of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit. This banner will be on display at the 14th Street Community Center from December, 2018 - August, 2019.

The Doyen Of Dixie: A Survey Of The Banjo Stylings Of Uncle Dave Macon, Corbin F. Hayslett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

David Harrison Macon (1870-1952) is often memorialized for his showmanship rather than his banjo playing. To compartmentalize such a significant American musician yields a wide gap within scholarship about Macon, country music history and the banjo. Macon’s banjo playing, documented through over two-hundred and fifty recordings made between the 1920s and 1950s, represents an array of cultures, eras, ethnicities, and styles all preserved in the repertoire of one of the most prolific country musicians of the 20^th century. This study reveals Macon’s playing by considering such factors as influences that preceded his professional tenure, identifying elements within his playing …

Heroes Of Indian Head Rock, Rick Duncan

Indian Head Rock Project

A series of posters created by Rick Duncan to commemorate the Heroes of Indian Head Rock in July of 2018.

“You Can’T Put A Price On Something That’S Not For Sale”: Eminent Domain In St. Paul, Virginia (1970 - 1985), Evan Couch

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The St. Paul Redevelopment Project was unique and touted as the first-of-its-kind to feature cooperation from all three levels of government. Several government agencies helped St. Paul accomplish an “impossible dream,” spending an estimated thirty million dollars to rechannel the Clinch River in the 1970s and 1980s. The small town of 1,000 residentsrelocated 100 families from South St. Paul to carry out the project, much to the dismay of many of the residents. A primary factor in enforcing the power of eminent domain in the St. Paul Redevelopment Project was the idea of “progress,” a commonality of many redevelopment projects. …

Multiple Streams Framework, Advocacy Coalition Framework, And The Passage Of The National Trails Systems Act Of 1968, Harrison Miller

Senior Honors Projects

Early American conservation efforts consisted primarily of the federal government seizing large swaths of land in the largely unpopulated western frontiers, away from more concentrated populations, and placing them under federal protection. While many of these became National Parks, to visit them was still mostly available only to the upper class, and they often seemed more like investments in to-be-cultivated land than sincere efforts at environmental conservation. In the eastern U.S., where the population was dense and industrialization was the new norm, federally protected lands were harder to come by. This pattern of federal conservation continued well into the 20th …

Unending Mazes: Gendered Inequalities, Drug Use, And State Interventions In Rural Appalachia, Lesly-Marie Buer

Theses and Dissertations--Anthropology

Prescription opioids are associated with rising rates of overdose deaths and hepatitis C and HIV infection in the US, including in rural Central Appalachia. Yet there is a dearth of published ethnographic research examining rural opioid use. The aim of this dissertation is to document the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs. These results are based on ethnographic fieldwork completed from 2013 to 2016 and centered around one county seat in rural Central Appalachia. Data are ascertained through semi-structured interviews with women who have …

Growing Economic Possibility In Appalachia: Stories Of Relocalization And Representation On Stinking Creek, Kathryn Engle

Theses and Dissertations--Sociology

This project explores the agricultural heritage and current social landscape of the Stinking Creek community of Knox County, Kentucky, and the legacy of the local nonprofit organization the Lend-A-Hand Center. Through participatory research, this project presents a reflexive account of the Lend-A-Hand Center Grow Appalachia Gardening Program examining the diverse economy of the Stinking Creek watershed and possibilities for new economic imaginings and post-coal futures for central Appalachia. This dissertation includes an oral history project, a theoretical examination, and an ethnographic reflection, bridging several literatures in the fields of agricultural history, Appalachian Studies, Participatory Action Research, research within the diverse …

Weathered Mountains: A Qualitative Study Of West Virginia Women And Their Perceptions Of Strength, Land, And Womanhood, Danielle Renee Mullins

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Appalachia and those living within the region have been discussed, examined, critiqued, and defined primarily by those living outside of the area, particularly following the 2016 Election. The main narratives of Appalachia form a dichotomous view of the land and its people: beautiful landscapes threatened by resource extraction and a people wrecked by the symptoms of longterm poverty and economic stagnation. Simultaneously, the Appalachian identity has been constructed around a rugged or blue-collar male identity that excludes and makes invisible the female experience. This study seeks to break through the landscape and poverty binary, as well as the male-archetype, to …