Another country is the past: Western cowboys, Lanna Nostalgia, and bluegrass aesthetics as performed by professional musicians in Northern Thailand

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-240

  Ferguson, Jane M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bluegrass; Cowboys; Identity; Lanna; Music; Nostalgia; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952712903     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01252.x     Document Type: Article

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