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Chris Anderton — Festival Places: Ephemerality, Continuity & a Sense of Place
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posted on 2018-12-27, 15:33 authored by Chris AndertonMusic festivals may become intimately associated with
the locations which host them. For a few days each year, these sites take on a
life of their own, with their own accommodation, entertainments, social
experience, retail opportunities and policing. They form temporary villages or
towns that are constructed and annually re-constructed in their own image by
festival organizers and attendees, and increasingly mediated through
traditional and online media by organizers, sponsors, broadcasters and
festivalgoers. Drawing primarily on British examples and theoretical
developments presented in Music Festivals
in the UK. Beyond the Carnivalesque (Anderton, 2019), this presentation
examines the spaces and places of such events in terms of their ephemerality
and continuity, and of the distinctions made by cultural geographers between space and place. It also introduces the new concepts of ‘cyclic place’ and
‘meta-sociality’ which emerged from the research and, it is argued, can be applied
to a wide range of outdoor festivals.
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