Traditional, participatory music is a powerful medium through which people express and shape their ideas about identity, mobility, social relations, and belonging, and through which people are in turn shaped. The everyday cultural practices of playing, sharing, and dancing to traditional music, as well as discussions about the nature of traditional music and production of events involving traditional music, all work to construct the region called Appalachia. Through this dissertation, I seek to answer some simple questions that have complicated answers involving place, identity, power, and social relations, with economic, social, and emotional ramifications: Who gets to be an Appalachian musician? How is this accomplished? Who gets to decide? Using a social constructionist theoretical base and drawing on such literatures as cultural geography, music geography, musicology and ethnomusicology, Appalachian studies, and critical regionalism, I employ ethnographic techniques, including participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and discourse analysis to understand the workings of old time music and the self-understanding of musicians that play and sing traditional music in eastern Kentucky, a core area of Appalachia. This dissertation shows that vernacular roots music in eastern Kentucky is both an inclusive and a contested phenomenon. In describing and analyzing the spaces for music in Appalachia, the old-time community in eastern Kentucky, the dynamics of festival hiring negotiations, and interviews with white and African American musicians, both male and female, I show how Appalachian space is produced simultaneously on many different scales. This construction is a dialectical process, articulating between the power expressed on a micro scale between individuals and the power used by individuals and institutions to define the region through representation. This dissertation demonstrates two main processes: how Appalachian space is negotiated and produced through interactions at jam sessions and other events, and how the musicians perform community in these interstitial moments. Contributions of this dissertation include attention to micro scale interactions and embodiment as a key component of spatial production, participant observation as a research method in music geography, and increased understanding of the performance of race and gender in cultural and spatial production.

The aim of this study is to uncover and discuss the spaces appropriated by graffiti writers and to reveal out the possible resistances involved in the act throughout the writers&amp / #8217 / motivations, characteristics, spaces they produce and all over process they are entering into together with the specifications of graffiti in Turkey. It demands to unfold the possibilities sheltered in everyday practices looking through graffiti and subsequently revealing out possibilities in graffiti looking through everyday life. It sees the urban space as a social product, which is incomplete without the tactics of the inhabitants and redefined as a result of appropriation. It looks through the history of graffiti, graffiti writers, their motivations and descriptions, working mechanism of the act, spaces chosen and their overall relations to power placed upon urban space in regard to its predescribed theoretical framework reaching out an integrated explanation on play/game theory and resistance it describes. It claims graffiti as a game of the juveniles acting in urban space as their playground.

Esta dissertação busca compreender as alterações urbanas e sociais de uma rua da área central da cidade de São Paulo, a partir do cotidiano de seus moradores. A rua Paim, localizada no distrito da Bela Vista, teve recentemente a grande maioria de seus cortiços demolida e substituída por edifícios verticais e voltados para público de maior poder aquisitivo. Tal processo, comumente chamado de \"renovação\", envolve a substituição de antigos moradores e uma valorização imobiliária, contrapondo-se à histórica estigmatização da rua como lugar \"degradado\". Esses dois discursos - \"renovação\" e \"degradação\" - acompanham as formas como novos e antigos moradores percebem o espaço em transformação e revelam definições relacionais do processo em curso. Para a compreensão desse processo, a pesquisa se orientou metodologicamente pela aproximação entre transformações urbanas e habitação e busca retomar o desenvolvimento da região sob uma perspectiva histórica, considerando as diversas intervenções urbanísticas que incidiram sobre esse espaço e as formas habitacionais que prevaleceram na rua. O estudo dessas formas, bem como das representações e práticas de seus moradores, permite a identificação de permanências e descontinuidades no cotidiano da rua, a partir da apropriação e do uso dos que ali vivem. / This work aims to comprehend the social and urban changes of a street located in the central area of São Paulo, from its inhabitant\'s everyday life point of view. Paim Street, part of Bela Vista district, has recently had the majority of its slums demolished and replaced by apartment buildings, aimed for a wealthier public. That process, commonly known as \"urban renewal\", involves the replacement of long-time inhabitants and real estate increasing values, and contrasts with the historic stigmatization of the street as a \"degraded\" place. These two speeches - \"urban renewal\" and \"urban decay\" - are related to the ways new and long-time inhabitants perceive the changing space and reveal relational definitions of the process. In order to understand this process, the research was methodologically oriented by the approach between urban transformations and dwelling, and intends to comprehend the development of the area from a historical perspective, considering the several urban interventions undertaken in that space and the dwelling forms that prevailed in the street. The study of these forms, as well as its inhabitants\' representations and practices, allows the identification of continuities and discontinuities of the street\'s everyday life, seen from the inhabitants\' appropriation and uses.

Esta dissertação busca compreender as alterações urbanas e sociais de uma rua da área central da cidade de São Paulo, a partir do cotidiano de seus moradores. A rua Paim, localizada no distrito da Bela Vista, teve recentemente a grande maioria de seus cortiços demolida e substituída por edifícios verticais e voltados para público de maior poder aquisitivo. Tal processo, comumente chamado de \"renovação\", envolve a substituição de antigos moradores e uma valorização imobiliária, contrapondo-se à histórica estigmatização da rua como lugar \"degradado\". Esses dois discursos - \"renovação\" e \"degradação\" - acompanham as formas como novos e antigos moradores percebem o espaço em transformação e revelam definições relacionais do processo em curso. Para a compreensão desse processo, a pesquisa se orientou metodologicamente pela aproximação entre transformações urbanas e habitação e busca retomar o desenvolvimento da região sob uma perspectiva histórica, considerando as diversas intervenções urbanísticas que incidiram sobre esse espaço e as formas habitacionais que prevaleceram na rua. O estudo dessas formas, bem como das representações e práticas de seus moradores, permite a identificação de permanências e descontinuidades no cotidiano da rua, a partir da apropriação e do uso dos que ali vivem. / This work aims to comprehend the social and urban changes of a street located in the central area of São Paulo, from its inhabitant\'s everyday life point of view. Paim Street, part of Bela Vista district, has recently had the majority of its slums demolished and replaced by apartment buildings, aimed for a wealthier public. That process, commonly known as \"urban renewal\", involves the replacement of long-time inhabitants and real estate increasing values, and contrasts with the historic stigmatization of the street as a \"degraded\" place. These two speeches - \"urban renewal\" and \"urban decay\" - are related to the ways new and long-time inhabitants perceive the changing space and reveal relational definitions of the process. In order to understand this process, the research was methodologically oriented by the approach between urban transformations and dwelling, and intends to comprehend the development of the area from a historical perspective, considering the several urban interventions undertaken in that space and the dwelling forms that prevailed in the street. The study of these forms, as well as its inhabitants\' representations and practices, allows the identification of continuities and discontinuities of the street\'s everyday life, seen from the inhabitants\' appropriation and uses.