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 | | As music continues its development as a mass produced commodity, traditional music forms are struggling with their survival and dissemination (Adorno, 1941; Benjamin, 1968; Bluestein, 1994; Clarke, 1995; Guralnick, 1989). |
 | | Historically, up until the 1960’s, bluegrass music was considered a distinct form of mountain music, a sub-genre of country music which enjoyed significant commercial success and popularity (Kretzschmar, 1970). |
 | | The study is informed by the historical development of bluegrass music, current scholarship on the status of bluegrass music in popular culture and by theoretical understandings of culture, stereotype and of the critical role that music plays in defining and identifying members of a culture. |
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