1st Edition

The Festivalization of Culture

By Jodie Taylor, Andy Bennett Copyright 2014
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

The Festivalization of Culture explores the links between various local and global cultures, communities, identities and lifestyle narratives as they are both constructed and experienced in the festival context. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from Australia and Europe, festivals are examined as sites for the performance and critique of lifestyle, identity and cultural politics; as... Read more

The Festivalization of Culture

Biography

Andy Bennett is Director of the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research at Griffith University, Australia, editor of Remembering Woodstock, and co-editor of Music, Space and Place, and Britpop and the English Music Tradition. Jodie Taylor is Research Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research at Griffith University, Australia. Ian Woodward is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research at Griffith University, Australia.

'This is a fascinating collection of chapters exploring and illuminating the multifaceted contemporary festivalscape. The essays are theoretically informed, empirically grounded and offer new insights that clearly demonstrate the importance of festival attendees to the development of socio-cultural and political meanings and experiences of festival events. Recommended for anyone with an interest in music and arts festival research.' Chris Anderton, Southampton Solent University, UK