
- 302 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Principles of Festival Management
About this book
Principles of Festival Management is a complete guide to developing and running a festival from inception to evaluation, covering all aspects of festival management and key central issues and contemporary debates.It focuses on the practical skills and knowledge needed for successful festival management, with a step by step approach to the planning, managing and staging processes. Theoretically underpinned, it provides a combination of management perspectives, practical advice and festival studies understandings across a diverse range of festivals, art-forms, audiences, locations, impacts and business models, enabling readers to think critically about the many challenges facing festivals managers.Principles of Festival Management provides the reader with a single port of call for developing and running a festival from inception to evaluation, covering all aspects of festivals management and discussing the key central issues and contemporary debates (such as financing, volunteering, security and much more). It is a vital resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students and academics in the fields of events, festivals, arts, music industry and cultural management and leisure and tourism studies, as well as early career festivals managers and employees.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- About the contributors
- About the editors
- 1 Festival Leadership, Structures and Roles
- 2 Festival Design and Programming
- 3 Funding Your Festival
- 4 Creating Your Festival Budget
- 5 Planning, Logistics and Management
- 6 Festivals and the Law
- 7 Festival Operations
- 8 Managing Human Resources
- Teams and team working
- Recruitment and selection
- HR planning
- Organisational structures
- Motivation
- Organisational culture
- Human resource management in a festival context
- What is HRM?
- 9 Festival Marketing
- 10 Research and Evaluation
- 11 Managing Festivals in a Digital World