The Sounds of Fairy Culture: Music, Fantasy Lifestyles, and Activism in the Digital Age

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dc.contributor.advisorFine, Abigail
dc.contributor.authorLaFleur, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-13T18:44:55Z
dc.date.available2021-09-13T18:44:55Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-13
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I investigate fairy culture through its music. Fairy music, the music that intersects with these communities, is incredibly diverse, ranging from the protest music of gay rights movements, to music emanating from Irish fairy-forts, to TikTok video soundtracks. I argue that the resurgence of fairy imagery and appropriation today is a reaction to modernity, with fairies symbolizing the antithesis of industrial capitalism, secularity, and heteronormativity. Furthermore, I argue that music in this culture is largely connected to place. People use music to identify locations as liminal spaces between reality and “the Otherworld” through storytelling and performance. Social media users actively enchant their surroundings by evoking the sounds of fantasy worlds. When outsiders to these communities dismiss these as eccentric fringe cultures, they fail to recognize the global influence of these movements, which build upon a historic precedent of activism, enchantment, and new ways of understanding the world.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26692
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectActivismen_US
dc.subjectFairiesen_US
dc.subjectFairyen_US
dc.subjectFantasyen_US
dc.subjectOnline Ethnographyen_US
dc.subjectSocial Mediaen_US
dc.titleThe Sounds of Fairy Culture: Music, Fantasy Lifestyles, and Activism in the Digital Age
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Music and Dance
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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