@article{1484382,
      recid = {1484382},
      author = {Kuligowski, Waldemar. and Poprawski, Marcin.},
      title = {Festivals and values : music, community engagement and  organisational symbolism /},
      publisher = {SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU,},
      address = {[S.l.] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) :},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {This is an original book, covering all the past areas of  research anyone would need to know about festivals and  event-based culture. It is based on academic research but  written in a way relevant for cultural professionals  uniquely explaining the cultural power of festivals, and  with original empirical research, the realities of  organisation and management, and social and economic value.  Dr Jonathan Vickery, Reader in Cultural Policy Studies and  Director: Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies,  Univeristy of Warwick. This book discusses music festivals  in the context of the specific values they convey. Today,  music festivals are a permanent feature of national,  regional and local cultural policies, a valuable asset in  the tourism industry and a significant source of income for  an industry that has been adversely affected by the steady  decline in physical sales of music. For the audience, on  the other hand, it is an opportunity to escape from  everyday life, multi-sensory contact with art, an activity  that stands for full-body participation a cultural  phenomenon that drags people out of their homes like no  other. There is one common denominator linking the  above-mentioned features of contemporary music festivals  namely the world of values. This is evident from the  non-accidental locations, festivals spaces design, planning  and the line-ups created consciously, with great care. The  organisers missions, logos, and other symbolic  organisational artefacts communicate specific values. These  values are explicitly mentioned by artists and audiences:  they can be easily identified in online forums and media  reports; participant behaviour, festival rituals and  additional festival programs are shaped on the basis of  values, and cooperation is built between the festival and  the local community. As the reader will quickly realize,  numbers and statistics sit alongside descriptions and  quotations in this book, and the organisers statements are  accompanied by the opinions of academics, but above all the  festival audience is given a voice both through quotations  and their drawings. This voice is by no means uniform, as  it turned out that research into values was often  transformed into a pretext for spinning tales about ones  life situation, ones political preferences, and ones  understanding of freedom and responsibility. Memories were  mixed with declarations, joy with regret, curses with  dreams, prose with poetry. Thomas Pettitt was not wrong in  noting that Social history has learnt to appreciate  festival as a valuable window on society and its  structures. The authors have tried to open all the windows  available. Students and researchers in the fields of  cultural anthropology, social psychology, folklore studies,  comparative religion, sociology of culture, cultural  policy, cultural history, and cultural management will find  this book highly interesting.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484382},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39752-3},
}