Ebook: The pop festival: history, music, media, culture

Essays on popular music festival culture as a whole, from its origins to a wide range of contemporary manifestations;Indhold: "The pose -- is a stance" : popular music and the cultural politics of festival in 1950s Britain / George McKay. Out of sight : the mediation of the music festival / Mark Goodall. "Let there be rock!" : myth and ideology in the rock festivals of the transatlantic counterculture / Nicholas Gebhardt. "As real as real can get" : race, representation and rhetoric at Wattstax, 1972 / Gina Arnold. The artist at the music festival : art, performance and hybridity / Rebekka Kill. Photo-essay : free festivals, new travellers, and the free party scene in Britain, 1981-1992 / Alan Lodge. Festival bodies : the corporeality of the contemporary music festival scene in Australia / Joanne Cummings and Jacinta Herborn. The Love Parade : European techno, the EDM festival, and the tragedy in Duisburg / Sean Nye and Ronald Hitzler. Protestival : global days of action and carnivalized politics at the turn of the millennium / Graham St John. Alternative playworlds : psytrance festivals, deep play and creative zones of transcendence / Alice O'Grady. No Spectators! : the art of participation, from Burning Man to boutique festivals in Britain / Roxy Robinson. Musicking in Motor City : reconfiguring urban space at the Detroit Jazz Festival / Anne Dvinge. Branding, sponsorship, and the music festival / Chris Anderton. Everybody talk about pop music : un-Convention as alternative to festival, from DIY music to social change / Andrew Dubber