Czech Bluegrass in Play
Czech Bluegrass in Play

Summary/Abstract: Drawing from scholarship on play, ritual, and performance,I propose that Czech bluegrass thrives – as does my fieldwork – in a state ofin-betweenness, in a territory that is between work, play, here and there, selfand other. Being comfortable with this kind of in-between state is importantfor fieldwork, and for music-making – play, I find, is both a central activityand metaphor in both. The bluegrass play I discuss in this essay can becomea response to the encroachment of Americanization in economic and culturalglobalization, but also a way of being “Americanist” – and entirely Czech.

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