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Small Town Artillery Under Fire: Music Venues as Contested Spaces

2025· article· W4417134361 on OpenAlexaffabout
G. A. Osborne

Bibliographic record

VenueThe International Journal of Social Political and Community Agendas in the Arts · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusic History and Culture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersUniversidad San Jorge
KeywordsSmall townArtilleryKey (lock)Placemaking

Abstract

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In March 2020, protestors made their anger known when Bailey Theatre in Camrose, Alberta announced that the indie rock band Small Town Artillery would perform at their venue. This band openly supports Indigenous rights and opposes pipelines through Indigenous lands. The circumstances around this performance event serves as the basis of this article’s examination of the role of a community theater, not only as an important third place, which contributes to the cultural and political vitality of the region, but also as a site for potential disunity. In an era of increasing political polarization, third places like community theaters, once considered essential to civil society and democracy, are often finding they have become contested spaces. The research findings demonstrate that the Bailey Theatre has become an important center of activity that fosters community connection, celebrates shared values, debates differences, and explores what it means to be human. However, as this case study demonstrates, venues can also be sites for community disunity and the contestation of competing ideologies. Using qualitative methods and building on the literature on community and third places, this article argues that to ensure their role in fostering a vibrant cultural scene and creating safe spaces for the celebration of diversity and civil society, community theaters must implement practices that foster civility and serve all their communities even if they run the risk of sparking moments of community discord.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0200.019
Scholarly communication0.0170.005
Open science0.0020.011
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.111
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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