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Music festivals in the UK

Anderton, Chris. (2017). Music festivals in the UK. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series . Ashgate (now part of Taylor & Francis/Routledge), UK. (Submitted)

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This book will develop new theoretical and contextual approaches to understanding outdoor popular music festivals, drawing on the author’s research into the UK festival market. Prior academic work in this area has typically focused either on the carnivalesque heritage of music festivals, or on developing managerial tools for the field of Events Management (Anderton 2009). This book will move beyond these perspectives to open the discussion regarding other ways to understand and theorise the cultural, social and geographic importance of outdoor greenfield popular music festivals. It will show how changes in the sector since the mid-1990s (such as professionalization, corporatisation, mediatisation, regulatory control, and sponsorship/branding) should not necessarily be regarded as a process of transgressive ‘alternative culture’ being co-opted by commercial concerns, but as a reconfiguration of the sector in line with changes in society, and a broadening of the potential for outdoor music events. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book will also investigate the impacts of technological change and shifts in the music industries as a whole (such as the increasing significance of live music and sponsorship/branding as key revenue drivers in an age of low cost digital distribution and piracy); the importance of ‘place’, ‘cyclicity’ and ‘sociality’ to the uniqueness of outdoor greenfield music festivals; and the varied and shifting socio-cultural roles of outdoor music festivals in the twenty-first century.

Item Type: Book
Subjects: BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE > Business and Management
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Communication and Media Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural Studies
SCIENCE > Geography and Environmental Studies
ARTS, MEDIA AND HUMANITIES > History
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE > Marketing
ARTS, MEDIA AND HUMANITIES > Music
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology
SPORT AND TOURISM > Tourism and Leisure
Faculties: Faculty of Creative Industries > School of Media
Depositing User: Chris Anderton
Date Deposited: 07 Dec 2016 10:47
Last Modified: 07 Dec 2016 10:47
URI: https://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/id/eprint/3502

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