Festivals And The Cultural Public Sphere

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136738584
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere written by Gerard Delanty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first major social scientific study of contemporary arts festivals. It will have appeal to a wide readership in cultural sociology, cultural studies and cultural theory.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781136738524
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere written by Gerard Delanty and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphereprovides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as examples of a particular aesthetic cosmopolitanism. The book approaches contemporary festivals as relatively autonomous social texts that need interpretation and contextualisation. This perspective, combined with a diversified set of theoretical approaches and research methods, and guided by a common thematic rationale, places the volume squarely within some of the most debated topics in current social sciences. Furthermore, the multifaceted nature of festivals allows for unusual but useful connections to be made across several fields of social inquiry. This timely edited collection brings together contributions from key figures across the social sciences, and proves to be valuable reading for undergraduate students, postgraduates, and professionals working within the areas of contemporary social theory, cultural theory, and visual culture. >This timely edited collection brings together contributions from key figures across the social sciences, and proves to be valuable reading for undergraduate students, postgraduates, and professionals working within the areas of contemporary social theory, cultural theory, and visual culture.

Author : Jim McGuigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134830939
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and the Public Sphere written by Jim McGuigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim McGuigan discusses cultural policy as a manifestation of cultural politics in the widest sense. Illustrating his case with examples from recent cultural policy initiatives in Britain, the United States and Australia, he looks at: * The rise of market reasoning in arts administration * Urban regeneration and the arts * Heritage tourism * Race, identity and cultural citizenship * Censorship and moral regulation * The role of computer-mediated communication in democratic discourse

Author : Chris Newbold
Publisher : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910158178
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus On Festivals written by Chris Newbold and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. Edited by a hugely expert and experienced team of editors and authors drawn from across Europe and is based on the groundbreaking work of the European Festival Research Project (EFRP).

Author : Julie Emontspool
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319641794
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism, Markets, and Consumption written by Julie Emontspool and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the complicated question of how markets and consumption create the possibilities for cross-cultural exchanges and the multicultural pleasures of omnivorous consumption, whilst at the same time building new boundaries and distinctions, paving the way for new exploitative relationships, and initiating novel modes of status and capital accumulation. The contributors identify that the divide between the economic and ethical dimensions of globalisation has never seemed in sharper relief. With the workings of global markets at odds with fostering cosmopolitan social change, this collection addresses the question of whether we should assume that market logics and consumptive practices conflict with cosmopolitan agendas. It also explores whether the imperatives of economic globalisation and individual consumption practices are opposed to cosmopolitan prospects for global solidarities. Cosmopolitanism, Markets and Consumption will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including in the social sciences, businesses and marketing studies.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004411488
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research, this volume unveils insights on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective.

Author : Millicent Weber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319715100
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture written by Millicent Weber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations, representations, and celebrations of literary communities; and as cultural products in their own right. As such they strongly influence how literary culture is produced, circulates and is experienced by readers in the twenty-first century. This book explores how audiences engage with literary festivals, and analyses these festivals’ relationship to local and digital literary communities, to the creative industries focus of contemporary cultural policy, and to the broader literary field. The relationship between literary festivals and these configuring forces is illustrated with in-depth case studies of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Port Eliot Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers’ Festival, and the Clunes Booktown Festival. Building on interviews with audiences and staff, contextualised by a large-scale online survey of literary festival audiences from around the world, this book investigates these festivals’ social, cultural, commercial, and political operation. In doing so, this book critically orients scholarly investigation of literary festivals with respect to the complex and contested terrain of contemporary book culture.

Author : Cindy H. Wong
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813551218
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Festivals written by Cindy H. Wong and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movies, stars, auteurs, and critics come together in film festivals as quintessential constellations of art, business, and glamour. Yet, how well do we understand the forces and meanings that these events embody? This work offers an overview of the history, people, films, and functions of the festival world.

Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
ISBN 13 : 1914386450
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festivals and the City written by Andrew Smith and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion. The ‘festivalisation’ of culture, politics and space in cities is often regarded as problematic, but this book examines the positive and negative ways that festivals affect cities by examining festive spaces as contested spaces. The book focuses on Western European cities, a particularly interesting context given the social and cultural pressures associated with high levels of in-migration and concerns over the commercialisation and privatisation of public spaces. The key themes of this book are the quest for more inclusive urban spaces and the contested geographies of festival spaces and places. Festivals are often used by municipal authorities to break down symbolic barriers that restrict who uses public spaces and what those spaces are used for. However, the rise of commercial festivals and ticketed events means that they are also responsible for imposing physical and financial obstacles that reduce the accessibility of city parks, streets and squares. Alongside addressing the contested effects of urban festivals on the character and inclusivity of public spaces, the book addresses more general themes including the role of festivals in culture-led regeneration. Several chapters analyse festivals and events as economic development tools, and the book also covers contested representations of festival cities and the ways related images and stories are used in place marketing. A range of cases from Western Europe are used to explore these issues, including chapters on some of the world’s most significant and contested festival cities: Venice, Edinburgh, London and Barcelona. The book covers a wide range of festivals, including those dedicated to music and the arts, but also events celebrating particular histories, identities and pastimes. A series of fascinating cases are discussed - from the Venice Biennale and Dublin Festival of History, to Rotterdam’s music festivals and craft beer festivals in Manchester. The diverse and innovative qualities of the book are also evident in the range of urban spaces covered: obvious examples of public spaces – such as parks, streets, squares and piazzas – are addressed, but the book includes chapters on enclosed public spaces (e.g., libraries) and urban blue spaces (waterways) too. This reflects the interpretation of public spaces as socio-material entities: they are produced informally through their use (including for festivals and events), as well as through their formal design and management.

Author : Maria Nita
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030883922
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festival Cultures written by Maria Nita and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together interdisciplinary research from the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, Art, History and Religious Studies, showing the necessity of a transdisciplinary and diachronic approach to examine the last half-century of modern arts and performance festivals. The volume focuses on new theoretical and methodological approaches for the examination of festivals and festival cultures, both the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and burner culture in Europe. The editors argue that festival cultures are becoming values-inflected global forms of travel, dwelling, festivity, communication, and social organisation that are transforming contemporary cultures and have significant political capital.