{"title":"Musical trail-making in Southern Appalachia","authors":"Laura Turner","doi":"10.1080/17411912.2021.2008262","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the making of, and issues of cultural representation and engagement surrounding, two music heritage tourism trails in the Southern Appalachian region – the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina and Virginia’s The Crooked Road. Drawing upon ethnographic work, I explore how organisers create and map narratives of musical heritage across the trails’ respective terrains, navigating in the process several challenges pertaining to geography, economics, politics, and ethics. Through this analysis, I offer insight into the broader mechanisms of and tensions that suffuse cultural heritage work aimed at public audiences. More generally, I call for deeper critical engagement with the music trail phenomenon – a multi-sited tourism format within which music, heritage, and place intersect in compelling ways.","PeriodicalId":43942,"journal":{"name":"Ethnomusicology Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ethnomusicology Forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2021.2008262","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article examines the making of, and issues of cultural representation and engagement surrounding, two music heritage tourism trails in the Southern Appalachian region – the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina and Virginia’s The Crooked Road. Drawing upon ethnographic work, I explore how organisers create and map narratives of musical heritage across the trails’ respective terrains, navigating in the process several challenges pertaining to geography, economics, politics, and ethics. Through this analysis, I offer insight into the broader mechanisms of and tensions that suffuse cultural heritage work aimed at public audiences. More generally, I call for deeper critical engagement with the music trail phenomenon – a multi-sited tourism format within which music, heritage, and place intersect in compelling ways.
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Articles often emphasise first-hand, sustained engagement with people as music makers, taking the form of ethnographic writing following one or more periods of fieldwork. Typically, ethnographies aim for a broad assessment of the processes and contexts through and within which music is imagined, discussed and made. Ethnography may be synthesised with a variety of analytical, historical and other methodologies, often entering into dialogue with other disciplinary areas such as music psychology, music education, historical musicology, performance studies, critical theory, dance, folklore and linguistics. The field is therefore characterised by its breadth in theory and method, its interdisciplinary nature and its global perspective.