Exploring community festivals and events
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Exploring community festivals and events
(Routledge advances in event research series)
Routledge, 2015
- : hbk
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 economic recession, community festivals and events as a sacred or profane time of celebration can be considered even more important than ever before.
This book for the first time explores the role and importance of 'community', 'culture' and its impact through festivals and events. Split into two distinct sections, the first introduces key themes and concepts, contextualises local traditions and culture, and investigates how festivals and events can act as a catalyst for tourism and create a sense of community. It then questions the social and political nature of festivals and community events through examining their ownership. The second section focuses on communities themselves, seeking to examine and discuss key emerging themes in community event studies such as; the role of diaspora, imagined communities, pride and identity, history, producing and consuming space and place, authenticity, and multi-ethnic communities. Examples are drawn from Portugal, the Dominican Republic, the USA, Malaysia, Malta, Finland and Australia making this book truly international.
This significant volume will be valuable reading for students and academics across the fields of Event, Tourism and Hospitality studies as well as other social science disciplines.
Table of Contents
1. Defining and exploring community festivals and events Allan Jepson & Alan Clarke 2. Organic Festivity: A Missing Element of Community Festival Vern Biaett 3. Experiencing Community Festivals and Events: Insights from Finnish Summer Festivals Maarit Kinnunen & Antti Haahti 4. Festivals and sense of community in places of transition: The Yakkerboo Festival, an Australian case study Michelle Duffy & Judith Mair 5. New and old tourism traditions - The case of Skieda in Livigno, Italian Alps Margherita Pedrana 6. 'Whose festival?': Examining questions of participation, access and ownership in rural festivals Jodie George, Rosie Roberts, & Jessica Pacella 7 . "Wha's Like Us?" Scottish Highland Games in America and the Identity of the Scots' Diaspora Jenny Flinn & Daniel Turner 8. Football on the Weekend: Rural Events and the Haitian Imagined Community in the Dominican Republic Nicholas Wise 9. Pride, Identity and Authenticity in Community Festivals and Events in Malta Vincent Zammit 10. The Importance of community events in nationalist oriented political environments: the case of Portuguese Estado Novo Candida Cadavez 11. "Something Greater than the Sum of its Parts": Narratives of Sense of Place at a Community Multicultural Festival Kelley A. McClinchey 12. Open House Food Catering: Does It Destroy Local Culture and Traditions? A perspective from Malaysia Azilah Kasim, Mohamed Azlan Ashaari & Shahrul Aman Sabir Ahmad 13. Religion, Community and Events Rev. Ruth Dowson 14. 'Taste'-ing Festivals: Understanding Constructions of Rural Identity through Community Festivals Jessica Pacella, Jodie George & Rosie Roberts 15. Swiss and Italian Identities: Exploring Heritage, Culture and Community in Regional Australia Leanne White 16. The Pozieres Son et Lumiere: Peace and memory after the Great War Caroline Winter 17. End of the rainbow? A review of community events in Liverpool W. Gerard Ryan 18. Exploring, defining and concluding upon community festivals and events Allan Jepson & Alan Clarke
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