ISBN:
9781910158579
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (356 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Newbold, Chris Focus On World Festivals : Contemporary case studies and perspectives
DDC:
394.26
Keywords:
Festivals
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Festivals
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Festivals ; Case studies
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A contemporary overview of festival activity based on over 30 international case studies. It demonstrates how the nature of festivals crosses borders, how they are a recognisable and growing part of societal and cultural delivery around the globe and that their impacts, economic, social and cultural are a major driver in their development
Abstract:
Intro -- SECTION 1 -- UNDERSTANDING FESTIVALS -- Introduction -- 1 The Festivalisation of Contemporary Life -- 2 The Place to be… global! The 'glocal' configuration of world festivals: The case of Les Eurockéennes de Belfort -- 3 Norwegian Festivals and a Music Economy in Transition: The art of balancing ambitions, expectations and limitations1 -- 4 Visual Arts Festivals and Globalisation: The rise of biennials1 -- 5 Animating Places: A new festival phenomenon? -- 6 Republic of the Imagination: Burning Man and the culture of radical self-expression -- SECTION 2 -- Introduction
Abstract:
7 Leicester: 'Festival City,' or a City with Festivals? -- 8 Perspective of Taiwan Lantern Festival -- 9 Galway International Arts Festival: What's behind the internationalisation of a name? -- 10 Rock in Rio: The Festival -- 11 Building the Festival Team: A case study of Saint Petersburg art festivals -- 12 Large Festivals - Great Struggles -- 13 Community Perceptions on the Impacts of Art Festivals on Overall Quality of Life: A case study of the Innibos National Arts Festival, South Africa -- 14 Valuing Arts Festivals: A case study of the South African National Arts Festival
Abstract:
15 Festivals on the High Street: Revitalising business and communities in the UK -- 16 Are You Having a Laugh? Comedy and Festivals in the 21st Century -- SECTION 3 -- Introduction -- 17 'Appealing for Grace': The Guinea Corn Festival of the Nawuris of Northern Ghana1 -- 18 Visualising National Life: The Hornbill Festival as Culture and Politics -- 19 The World's Largest Water Fight, or the Battle for the Soul of a Festival: Songkran in Thailand and South East Asia -- 20 China: Rehabilitating Festivals -- 21 Festivals that Change Lives
Abstract:
22 A Holy Week Carnival? The Iberoamerican Theater Festival of Bogotá1 -- 23 Dia de los Muertos and its Representation of Calaveras -- 24 Commemorating the Ancestors: Performances of Death at the Tucson All Souls' Procession -- 25 Off the Beaten Track -- 26 The Parkes Elvis Festival: Attendee and Host Community Perspectives -- 27 'We have been called Carnival People': The Festive Culture of Trinidad and Tobago -- A Author index -- Jennie Jordan -- Jennie Jordan -- Aurélien Djakouane and Emmanuel Négrier -- Daniel Nordgård -- Monica Sassatelli -- Maurice Maguire -- Rachel Bowditch -- Jennie Jordan
Abstract:
Simon Brown -- Alison Shin-Yi Huang -- Silvia Guglielmini -- Vanessa Martin -- Svetlana Puchkova and Elena Elkanova -- János Zoltán Szabó -- Mathilda van Niekerk -- Jen D. Snowball -- Roberta Comunian, Lydia Fraser-Ward and Silvie Jacobi -- Christopher Maughan and Ljiljana Radošević1 -- Chris Newbold -- Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu -- Arkotong Longkumer -- Chris Newbold -- Chris Newbold and Meng Xiang -- Floriane Gaber -- Paolo Vignolo -- Emily Bradfield -- Rachel Bowditch -- Robyn Archer -- Katie Schlenker, Carmel Foley and Eve Carroll-Dwyer -- Milla Cozart Riggio
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