Exploring community festivals and events / edited by Allan Jepson and Alan Clarke.

The development of the festival and event industry has seen large scale growth and extensive government support as a result of objectives to enhance and project the image of place and leverage positive sponsorship and regeneration opportunities. As we move deeper into austerity measures prompted by...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Jepson, Allan (Editor), Clarke, Alan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge advances in event research series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Defining and exploring community festivals and events; Part I Exploring and defining the context of community festivals and events; 2 Organic festivity: a missing element of community festival; 3 Experiencing community festivals and events: insights from Finnish summer festivals; 4 Festivals and sense of community in places of transition: the Yakkerboo Festival, an Australian case study; 5 New and old tourism traditions: the case of Skieda in Livigno, Italian Alps.
  • 6 'Whose festival?' Examining questions of participation, access and ownership in rural festivalsPart II Exploring and defining community festival and event communities; 7 'Wha's like us?' Scottish Highland Games in America and the identity of the Scots' diaspora; 8 Football on the weekend: rural events and the Haitian imagined community in the Dominican Republic; 9 Pride, identity and authenticity in community festivals and events in Malta; 10 The importance of community events in nationalist oriented political environments: the case of the Portuguese Estado Novo.
  • 11 'Something greater than the sum of its parts': narratives of sense of place at a community multicultural festival12 Open house food catering: does it destroy local culture and traditions? A perspective from Malaysia; 13 Religion, community and events; 14 'Taste'-ing festivals: understanding constructions of rural identity through community festivals; 15 Swiss and Italian identities: exploring heritage, culture and community in regional Australia; 16 The Pozières Son et Lumière: peace and memory after the Great War; 17 End of the rainbow? A review of community events in Liverpool.