Focus On World Festivals

Contemporary case studies and perspectives

Chris Newbold, Jennie Jordan, Chris Newbold, Jennie Jordan

• Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781910158166, 9781910158555
• eBook ISBN: 9781910158579
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

Focus on World Festivals: Contemporary case studies and perspectives provides the reader with a contemporary overview of festival activity from around the world based on over 30 case studies drawn from every continent. Through its case-study focus this book can be utilised in several ways; to examine different types and genres of festivals across the world; to consider in detail specific festivals in specific contexts; to look at management and organisational issues in festival provision, and to illustrate debates and theories pertaining to festivals throughout the world. This book is a companion to 'Focus on Festivals', it is written by a varied mix of academics, practitioners and cultural commentators. It expands many of the central themes and issues to reach a global understanding of festivals. The key themes this book discusses are: * The nature of festivals, festivalisation and the growth of festival provision around the world * Interest in festival's potential economic, social, place-making and political impacts * Festivals as 'glocal' players * The relationship between festivals and tourism * The management and business of festivals in different locations responding to differing social, political and market contexts * The role of festivals in identity making *Festivals as sites of participation, co-creation and experiences It is a dynamic and indispensable text for students in arts and festivals management, events, tourism, creative industries, cultural and public policy, music industry and management courses as well as for festival and events managers, public authorities and existing and potential sponsors. Through the variety of festivals illustrated in this book, the reader will discover that much about the nature of festivals crosses borders, they are a recognisable and growing part of societal and cultural delivery around the globe; their impacts, economic, social and cultural are a major driver in their development; their popularity with audiences, arts organisations and performers is undiminished in this ever-expanding cultural phenomenon of festivals..

Table of contents

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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