Music festivals in the UK beyond the carnivalesque / Chris Anderton.
| Author/creator | Anderton, Chris |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Music festivals in the United Kingdom |
| Series | Ashgate popular and folk music series |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-190) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 12/09/2020). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Music festivals in the UK London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. 1472436202 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020691328 |
| ISBN | 9781315596792 (ebk) |
| ISBN | 9781317091950 (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |