The pop festival
Subtitle: history, music, media, culture
By: edited by George McKay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781623569594; 9781623568207
Subjects: Popular music; Music festivals; History and criticism
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The pose" is a stance" : popular music and the cultural politics of festival in 1950s Britain  -- George McKay; title: Out of sight : the mediation of the music festival  -- Mark Goodall; title: "Let there be rock!" Myth and ideology in the rock festivals of the transatlantic counterculture  -- Nicholas Gebhardt; title: "As real as real can get" : race, representation, and rhetoric at Wattstax, 1972  -- Gina Arnold; title: The artist at the music festival : art, performance and hybridity  -- Rebekka Kill -- Photo-essay.; title: Free festivals, new travellers, and the free party scene in Britain, 1981-1992  -- Alan Lodge; title: Festival bodies : the corporeality of the contemporary music festival scene in Australia  -- Joanne Cummings and Jacinta Herborn; title: The Love Parade : European techno, the EDM festival, and the tragedy in Duisburg  -- Sean Nye and Ronald Hitzler; title: Protestival : global days of action and carnivalized politics at the turn of the millennium  -- Graham St John; title: Alternative playworlds : psytrance festivals, deep play and creative zones of transcendence  -- Alice O'Grady; title: No spectators! The art of participation, from Burning Man to boutique festivals in Britain  -- Roxanne Robinson; title: Musicking in Motor City : reconfiguring urban space at the Detroit Jazz Festival  -- Anne Dvinge; title: Branding, sponsorship, and the music festival  -- Chris Anderton; title: Everybody talk about pop music : un-Convention as alternative to festival, from DiY music to social change -- Andrew Dubber.