Festival Cultures: Mapping New Fields in the Arts and Social Sciences

by Maria Nita (Editor), Jeremy H. Kidwell (Editor)

Overview

This book brings together interdisciplinary research from the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, Art, History and Religious Studies, showing the necessity of a transdisciplinary and diachronic approach to examine the last half-century of modern arts and performance festivals. The volume focuses on new theoretical and methodological approaches for the examination of festivals and festival cultures, both the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and burner culture in Europe. The editors argue that festival cultures are becoming values-inflected global forms of travel, dwelling, festivity, communication, and social organisation that are transforming contemporary cultures and have significant political capital.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030883942
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/03/2021
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Maria Nita is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on religion and environmentalism, with particular interest in artistic practices for sustainability, festivals, and the climate movement.

Jeremy H. Kidwell is a Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics at the University of Birmingham, UK. Kidwell is an interdisciplinary scholar, with a background in the humanities, particularly literature and music.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1
Maria Nita
The Naturalization of the Alternatives in 1970s Britain through a 2020 XR Lens

Chapter 2Sharif Gemie
The Case for A Free Festival (1969—74): Hippy Culture and Pop Festivals

Chapter 3
István Povedák’
“Come, look and hear how the past has been and the future will be!” Festival culture and Neo-Nationalism in Hungary

Chapter 4
Botond Vitos, Graham St John and François Gauthier
Burning Man in Europe: Burns, Culture and Transformation
Chapter 5
Zsófia Szonja Illés and Maria Nita
Artistic Engagement and Engineering Cultural Innovation at Festivals

Chapter 6
Barbara Brayshay and Jacqui Mulville
Festivals: Monument Making, Mythologies and Memory

Chapter 7
Graham St John
Sherpagate: Tourists and Cultural Drama at Burning Man
Chapter 8
Leonore van den Ende
Festival co-creation and transformation: The Case of Tribal Gathering in Panama
Chapter 9
Pau Obrador, Antoni Vives-Riera, and Marcel Pich-Esteve
The renewal of festive traditions in Mallorca: ludic empowerment and cultural transgressions

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From the Publisher

Through selected case studies of festivals post-1960s, this volume consolidates festival studies whilst taking it to novel directions. It is a welcome and timely contribution to the analysis of festival cultures as unique viewpoints into wider cultural processes of contemporary society.
Monica Sassatelli, Bologna Italy.