HOME | CHECKOUT | ABOUT | FAQ | CONTACT US |
 
Welcome Guest [create an account] or log-in:
email
password

Chapter 12 Large Festivals – Great Struggles

DOI: 10.23912/978-1-910158-55-5-3034

ISBN: 978-1-910158-55-5

Published: February 2016

Component type: chapter

Published in: Focus on World Festivals

Parent DOI: 10.23912/978-1-910158-55-5-2822

10.23912/978-1-910158-55-5-3034

Abstract

Contemporary music festivals in late modern European culture have different histories, focuses, missions and geographical conditions. This chapter calls for deeper analysis of the development of festivals that is rooted in cultural anthropology, sociology and the sciences – a multidisciplinary approach. Without this, festivals will simply be known as recurring celebrations, thematic ritual events reflecting the basic values and the worldview shared by the participants that are the basis of their social identity. However, nowadays, the economic importance of festivals has become even more rigorously evaluated, whilst complicated ways to measure cultural impact are often left out, even from detailed reports. Most studies emphasise the difference between Eastern and Western European festivals (Newbold et al. 2015), however, the life cycle of a festival is influenced by factors that are similar wherever they take place: marketing, promotions, sales, audience development and quality, improvement challenges etc. As the size of the festival market has grown, new questions are being asked about economic efficiency. In this study I will search for similarities in the development of five major Eastern and Western European festivals, namely Glastonbury Festival (United Kingdom), Roskilde Festival (Denmark), Sziget Festival (Hungary), Exit Festival (Serbia), and Woodstock Festival Poland (Poland). I will also analyse the Sziget Festival’s life cycle in detail in order to go deeper into the issues and discuss ways to further research music festivals.

Sample content

Click here to download PDF

Contributors

  • János Zoltán Szabó (Author)

For the source title:

  • Chris Newbold, De Montfort University (Editor)
  • Jennie Jordan, De Montfort University (Editor)

Cite as

Szabó, 2016

Szabó, J.Z. (2016) "Chapter 12 Large Festivals – Great Struggles" In: Newbold, C. & Jordan, J. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-910158-55-5-3034

References

Cooper, W. W., Seiford, L. M., and Tone, K. (2006) Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Uses. New York: Springer.

Getz, D. (1993) Corporate culture in not-for-profit festival organisations, concepts and potential applications, in Festival Management and Event Tourism, 1 11-17.

https://doi.org/10.3727/106527093792336764

Kotler, P. (2002) Marketing Menedzsment (Marketing Management) Budapest: KJK-Kerszöv.

Newbold, C., Maughan, C., Jordan, J., and Bianchini F. (eds.) (2015) Focus On Festivals, Contemporary European Case Studies and Perspectives. Oxford: Goodfellow.

Schofer, E., and Meyer, J. W. (2005) The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century, in American Sociological Review. 70(6), (Dec. 2005), 898-920.

https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240507000602

Szabó, J. Z. (2015) Festivals, Conformity and Socialisation, in C Newbold, C. Maughan, J. Jordan, and F. Bianchini, (eds.) Focus On Festivals, Contemporary European Case Studies and Perspectives. Oxford: Goodfellow.

Turner, V. (2002): A rituális folyamat (The Ritual Process). Budapest: Osisis

Witzel, M. (2003). First among marketers, in Financial Times. August 6 th 2003.

Available

Chapter 12 Large Festivals – Great Struggles [Details]Price: USD $7.99*Licences / Downloadable file

Published in Focus on World Festivals

Chapter 12 Large Festivals – Great Struggles [Details]Price: USD $7.99*Licences / Downloadable file
Hardback format [Details]Price: USD $135.00Copies / Delivery by post
Terms and conditions of purchase | Privacy policy