Music Festivals in the UK: Beyond the Carnivalesque

ISBN-13: 9780367588571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str.

Chris Anderton

Opis

The outdoor music festival market has developed and commercialised significantly since the mid-1990s, and is now a mainstream part of the British summertime leisure experience. The overall number of outdoor music festivals staged in the UK doubled between 2005 and 2011 to reach a peak of over 500 events. UK Music (2016) estimates that the sector

Spis treści

1. Contextualising Outdoor Music Festivals in the UK 2. Proliferation, Professionalisation and Mainstreaming of Outdoor Music Festivals 3. Branded Landscapes: Sponsorship, Marketing and Mediation 4. Always the Same, Yet Always Different: Music Festivals as Cyclic Places 5. The Social Life of Music Festivals: Audiences and Atmosphere

O autorze

Chris Anderton is an Associate Professor at Solent University, UK, where he

teaches music management, business, history and culture. He is co-author of

the book Understanding the Music Industries (Sage, 2013) and has published

book chapters and articles on music bootlegging, music blogs, progressive

rock, and music festivals. He established the in-house music organisation

Solent Music (solentmusic.com) in 2011 and is co-Executive Producer of

the annual Solent SMILE Festival (smilefest.co.uk). His research interests

include the cultural economy of music festivals and live events, the future of

the music industries, and the ‘hidden histories’ of popular, underground and

niche music genres.