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Music / city : American festivals and placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport / Jonathan R. Wynn.
Fine Arts Library - Reserve ML37.U5 W96 2015
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wynn, Jonathan R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music festivals--United States.
- Music festivals.
- Music festival attendees.
- United States.
- Music festival attendees--United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Music/City immerses readers in the world of music festivals, from their history to their lively on-site experiences. Offering a sharp perspective on contemporary cities and cultural institutions in action, Wynn analyzes how massive organizational resources transform festivals into promotional machines. Music/City culminates with an impassioned argument for temporary events, claiming that when done right, fleeting occasions can serve as responsive, flexible, and adaptable products attuned to local places and communities. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The unlikely rise in importance of American music festivals
- Music in ruins : the Newport Folk Festival
- "When country comes to town" : Nashville's country music festival
- Part-time indie music club : Austin's South by Southwest
- The long-term effects of fleeting moments : part one
- The long-term effects of fleeting moments : part two
- Conclusions : festivalization as good policy
- Encore : toward a sociology of occasions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226305493
- 022630549X
- 9780226305523
- 022630552X
- OCLC:
- 907147479
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