Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Tradition Management in Post-Disaster Recovery: The Case of New Orleans

博士论文改进补助金：灾后恢复中的传统管理：新奥尔良的案例

• 批准号: 0752308
• 负责人: Richard Handler
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2009-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0752308&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Tradition

University of Virginia graduate student SherriLynn Colby-Bottel, supervised by Dr. Richard Handler, will undertake research on the social, economic, and cultural effects of post-disaster staging of traditions for tourist consumption and disaster recovery appeals. The staging and invention of tradition is a significant social phenomenon that occurs in the wake of disasters worldwide. It has practical consequences for local recovery. It also provides an important research opportunity for social scientists seeking to understand how shared culture develops in the first place, and the role of culture in social health.Colby-Bottel will conduct her research in New Orleans. For over a century, the economy of New Orleans has been dependent on cultural tourism. Since hurricane Katrina in 2005, both local citizens and leaders of the tourist industry have been concerned about "saving" New Orleans traditions, particularly music. Colby-Bottel suggests that the public focus on music means that for musicians, what is called traditional becomes a category that is both stable and flexible. Musicians must work within the constraints of the city's tourism industry and varied expectations of locals and tourists, but also must preserve their own legitimacy as defined by the musicians themselves. Negotiating these dynamics involves ongoing discussion and debate about musical genres, standards for musical performance practices, and the historically rooted and racialized discourses that accompany these practices. This makes New Orleans fertile ground for looking at post-disaster effects of tradition management.The researcher will employ a combination of ethnographic and technical musicological methodologies. She will carry out participant observation at music performances, record technical transcriptions of musical form and structure, conduct informal and semi-structured interviews, make audio and video recordings of performances. Her focus questions will be: How do musicians use music practices to reproduce and contest local concepts of tradition? How does this happen in and across discourse and performance? And how are the local musicians' standards of authenticity and sincerity deployed in discourses of cultural tourism and in debates about the relationship of identity to music-making?The research is important because it will contribute to understanding the more subtle social consequences of disasters. This dissertation research focuses on the New Orleans musicians whose cultural product, in the form of music tradition, is a crucial element in rebuilding both the local society and the larger cultural tourism economy in which these practices operate. The research also will contribute significantly to the education of a graduate student.

弗吉尼亚大学研究生Sherrilynn Colby-Bottel将在Richard Handler博士的指导下，研究灾后为游客消费和灾难恢复呼吁而上演的传统对社会、经济和文化的影响。传统的形成和发明是在世界各地发生灾难之后发生的一种重大社会现象。它对当地经济复苏具有实际影响。这也为社会科学家提供了一个重要的研究机会，试图了解共享文化最初是如何发展的，以及文化在社会健康中的作用。科尔比-博特尔将在新奥尔良进行她的研究。一个多世纪以来，新奥尔良的经济一直依赖于文化旅游。自2005年卡特里娜飓风以来，当地市民和旅游业领袖都在关注如何“拯救”新奥尔良的传统，尤其是音乐。科尔比-博特尔认为，公众对音乐的关注意味着，对于音乐家来说，所谓的传统成为一个既稳定又灵活的类别。音乐家必须在城市旅游业的限制下工作，并在当地人和游客的不同期望下工作，但也必须保持音乐家自己定义的合法性。就这些动态进行谈判涉及到关于音乐流派、音乐表演实践的标准以及伴随着这些实践的历史根源和种族主义话语的持续讨论和辩论。这使得新奥尔良为研究传统管理的灾后影响提供了肥沃的土壤。研究人员将采用人种学和技术音乐学方法的结合。她将在音乐表演中进行参与者观察，录制音乐形式和结构的技术转录，进行非正式和半结构化采访，制作表演的录音和录像。她的重点问题将是：音乐家如何利用音乐实践来再现和挑战当地的传统概念？这是如何在话语和表演中发生的？在文化旅游的话语中，以及身份与音乐创作的关系的辩论中，当地音乐家的真实和真诚标准是如何被运用的？这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于理解灾难带来的更微妙的社会后果。本文的研究重点是新奥尔良的音乐家，他们的文化产品以音乐传统的形式，是重建当地社会和这些实践所在的更大的文化旅游经济的关键要素。这项研究也将对研究生的教育做出重大贡献。