ISBN:
9781472436207
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 197 Seiten
,
Diagramme
Series Statement:
Ashgate popular and folk music series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Rock-Festival
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Kommerzialisierung
;
Großbritannien
;
Music festivals / Great Britain
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Großbritannien
;
Rock-Festival
;
Kommerzialisierung
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"Music Festivals in the UK is the first extended investigation into the commercialised rock and pop festival sector, and examines events of all sizes: from mega-events such as Glastonbury Festival, V Festival and the Reading and Leeds Festivals to 'boutique' events with maximum attendances as small as 250. In the past, research into festivals has typically focused either on their carnivalesque heritage or on developing managerial tools for the field of events management. Anderton moves beyond such perspectives to propose new ways of understanding and theorising the cultural, social and geographic importance of outdoor music festivals. He argues that changes in the sector since the mid-1990s, such as professionalisation, corporatisation, mediatisation, regulatory control, and sponsorship/branding, should not necessarily be regarded as a process of transgressive 'alternative culture' being co-opted by commercial concerns; instead, such changes represent a reconfiguration of the sector in line with changes in society, and a broadening of the forms and meanings that may be associated with outdoor music events."--Publisher's description
Description / Table of Contents:
Contextualising outdoor music festivals in the UK -- The proliferation, professionalisation and mainstreaming of outdoor music festivals -- Branded landscapes: sponsorship, marketing and mediation -- Always the same, yet always different: music festivals as cyclic places -- The social life of music festivals: audiences and atmosphere
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