The pop festival : history, music, media, culture /
McKay, George,1960-editor.
"A brilliant collection of essays on popular music festival culture as a whole, from its origins to a wide range of contemporary manifestations"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The pose" ... is a stance': popular music and the cultural politics of festival in 1950s Britain / George McKay -- Out of sight: the mediation of the music festival / Mark Goodall -- 'Let there be rock!': myth and ideology in the rock festivals of the transatlantic counterculture / Nicholas Gebhardt -- 'As real as real can get': race, representation, and rhetoric at Wattstax, 1972 / Gina Arnold -- The artist at the music festival: art, performance and hybridity / Rebekka Kill -- Photo-essay: free festivals, new travellers and the free party scene in Britain, 1981-1992 / Alan Lodge -- Festival bodies: the corporeality of the contemporary music festival scene in Australia / Joanne Cummings and Jacinta Herborn -- The Love Parade: European techno, the EDM festival, and the tragedy in Duisburg / Sean Nye and Ronald Hitzler -- Protestival: global days of action and carnivalised politics at the turn of the millennium / Graham St John -- Alternative playworlds: psytrance festivals, deep play and creative zones of transcendence / Alice O'Grady -- No Spectators!: the art of participation, from Burning Man to boutique festivals in Britain / Roxanne Robinson -- Musicking in motor city: reconfiguring urban space at the Detroit Jazz Festival / Anne Dvinge -- Branding, sponsorship, and the music festival / Chris Anderton -- Everybody talk about pop music: Un-Convention as alternative to festival, from DIY music to social change / Andrew Dubber.
"A brilliant collection of essays on popular music festival culture as a whole, from its origins to a wide range of contemporary manifestations"--Provided by publisher.
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