Every day's a festival!

Küchler, Susanne, Kürti, László and Elkadi, Hisham 2011, Every day's a festival! Sean Kingston Publishing, Wantage, U. K..

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Title Every day's a festival!
Alternative title Every day's a festival! - diversity on show
Author(s) Küchler, Susanne
Kürti, László
Elkadi, Hisham
Editor(s) Küchler, Susanne
Kürti, László
Elkadi, Hisham
Publication date 2011
Total pages 294 p.
Publisher Sean Kingston Publishing
Place of Publication Wantage, U. K.
Keyword(s) festivals
art festivals
multiculturalism
Summary Despite their ubiquity and cultural prominence, the academic study of arts festivals has long been neglected. The burgeoning festivals industry is, however, firmly embedded in both the arts funding and weekly calendar of European cities, and there is no doubt that festivals are fast becoming a defining feature of urban life in the twenty-first century. Understanding their nature and their potential impact is now more pressing than ever before. The contributors to this volume explore the modern urban festival and the difference it makes to the experience and management of diversity in the city. Their research reveals an unsettling coupling of the celebration of local diversity with institutional amnesia, in which the memory of a festival hardly ever outlasts its funding. This book documents a key phenomenon of our time, the supplanting of community-based remembering with the repetitive structures of events whose historic and interpretative depth is lost amid a spiraling velocity of "festivalization."
ISBN 9781907774010
1907774017
Language eng
Field of Research 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective 879899 Environmentally Sustainable Construction not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category A7 Edited book
Copyright notice ©2011, Susanne Kuchler, Laszlo Kurti and Hisham Elkadi
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30043123

Document type: Book
Collection: School of Architecture and Built Environment
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