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Title: Gympie's Country Music Muster: Creating a Cultural Economy from a Local Tradition
Language: English
Authors: Edwards, Rob
Source: Journal of Rural Studies. Oct 2012 28(4):517-527.
Availability: Elsevier. 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800. Tel: 877-839-7126; Tel: 407-345-4020; Fax: 407-363-1354; e-mail: usjcs@elsevier.com; Web site: http://www.elsevier.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 11
Publication Date: 2012
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Folk Culture, Municipalities, Cultural Capital, Social Capital, Cultural Centers, Community Development, Community Organizations, Cooperation
Geographic Terms: Australia
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.06.006
ISSN: 0743-0167
Abstract: This paper provides an historical analysis of the National Country Music Muster, a country music festival held in a forest outside of Gympie, a town in rural southeast Queensland, Australia, between the period 1982 and 2006 (the first twenty-five years of the event). This article analyses the origins of the Muster, demonstrating how local events are often developed as a result of regional traditions and assets, or "countryside capital" (Garrod et al., 2006). While this countryside capital was used to develop the Muster, this paper will demonstrate the event created its own capital, which the Gympie community has then utilised. The Muster has enabled the development of community capacity in three key ways: community not-for-profit groups have received increased income through participation as volunteers at the Muster; collaborative efforts between groups have developed senses of community on site; and the Muster has fostered social capital development by encouraging volunteer groups to work on site, all of which, of course, ensures the Muster continues to operate. Additionally, the Muster has provided the impetus for the creation of two country music focused cultural institutions in Gympie, as well as several spin-off events, which seek to capitalise on the increased traffic through town during the Muster period. Each of these institutions and spin off events has helped embed country music within Gympie's cultural economy. Further, they provide a clear demonstration of a rural community actively and creatively deploying its cultural capital in order both to buttress itself against fluctuations in the town's fortunes and to assert a locally relevant country identity. (Contains 2 figures.)
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