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- English
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About this book
True, the city's many summer festivals each maintain their own identities. And yet 'The Festival' has stuck as a shorthand which captures the truly eclectic experience of 'doing Edinburgh' which has made the city's very name synonymous with world-leading culture and performance.
This book is the first to tell the complete history of the Edinburgh Festival. Arts writer David Pollock paints an extraordinary portrait of the growth, glory years and struggles of this global cultural phenomenon. He introduces a wide cast of key individuals and shows, including Fleabag, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Joseph Beuys, The Fall and Six The Musical.
The Edinburgh Festival: A Biography provides a unique perspective on the social and cultural history of Scotland and its capital in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It will delight and intrigue all who have experience of the greatest festival in the world.
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Performing ArtsTable of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- What is the Edinburgh Festival?
- Note on the Spotlights
- Introduction: The Past
- 1 The Birth of the Edinburgh International Festival
- 2 ‘On the fringe of the Festival...’
- 3 The Film Festival, the Military Tattoo and the 1950s
- 4 The Conferences and the Birth of the 1960s
- 5 The Howff, the Traverse and the Demarco Gallery
- 6 Changing Landscapes in the 1970s
- 7 The Film Festival Meets the Movie Brats
- 8 The Fringe Gets Serious
- 9 ‘Supervenues’ and the Arrival of the Big Three
- 10 The Birth of the Jazz and Book Festivals
- 11 The Rise of the Stand-Up while Edinburgh Rebuilds
- 12 New Blood for the New Millennium
- 13 Edinburgh Art Festival and the Arrival of Summerhall
- 14 The 21st Century Festival: Bigger... and Better?
- 15 Edinburgh Without a Festival
- Postscript: The Future
- Timeline
- Appendix 1: Who’s in Charge of the Edinburgh Festival?
- Appendix 2: Festival Winners
- Bibliography
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover
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