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About this book
'I'm going to camp out on the land … try and get my soul free'. So sang Joni Mitchell in 1970 on 'Woodstock'. But Woodstock is only the tip of the iceberg. Popular music festivals are one of the strikingly successful and enduring features of seasonal popular cultural consumption for young people and older generations of enthusiasts. From pop and rock to folk, jazz and techno, under stars and canvas, dancing in the streets and in the mud, the pleasures and politics of the carnival since the 1950s are discussed in this innovative and richly-illustrated collection. The Pop Festival brings scholarship in cultural studies, media studies, musicology, sociology, and history together in one volume to explore the music festival as a key event in the cultural landscape - and one of major interest to young people as festival-goers themselves and as students.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Credits
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘The pose … is a stance’: Popular music and the cultural politics of festival in 1950s Britain
- Chapter 2 Out of sight: The mediation of the music festival
- Chapter 3 ‘Let there be rock!’ Myth and ideology in the rock festivals of the transatlantic counterculture
- Chapter 4 ‘As real as real can get’: Race, representation and rhetoric at Wattstax, 1972
- Chapter 5 The artist at the music festival: Art, performance and hybridity
- Chapter 6 Photo-essay: Free festivals, new travellers and the free party scene in Britain, 1981–1992
- Chapter 7 Festival bodies: The corporeality of the contemporary music festival scene in Australia
- Chapter 8 The Love Parade: European techno, the EDM festival and the tragedy in Duisburg
- Chapter 9 Protestival: Global days of action and carnivalized politics at the turn of the millennium1
- Chapter 10 Alternative playworlds: Psytrance festivals, deep play and creative zones of transcendence
- Chapter 11 No Spectators! The art of participation, from Burning Man to boutique festivals in Britain
- Chapter 12 Musicking in motor city: Reconfiguring urban space at the Detroit Jazz Festival
- Chapter 13 Branding, sponsorship and the music festival
- Chapter 14 Everybody talk about pop music: Un-Convention as alternative to festival, from DIY music to social change
- Index
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