The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture
- Author: McKay, George
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Contents
- Acknowledgements Picture credits
- Contributors
- Introduction George McKay
- Chapter 1 . 'The pose ... is a stance': popular music and the cultural politics of festival in 1950s Britain George McKay
- Chapter 2 Out of sight: the mediation of the music festival Mark Goodall
- Chapter 3 'Let there be rock!' Myth and ideology in the rock festivals of the transatlantic counterculture Nicholas Gebhardt
- Chapter 4 'As real as real can get': race, representation, and rhetoric at Wattstax, 1972 Gina Arnold
- Chapter 5 The artist at the music festival: art, performance and hybridity Rebekka Kill
- Chapter 6 Photo-essay: Free festivals, new travellers, and the free party scene in Britain, 1981-1992 Alan Lodge
- Chapter 7 Festival bodies: the corporeality of the contemporary music festival scene in Australia Joanne Cummings and Jacinta Herborn
- Chapter 8 The Love Parade: European techno, the EDM festival, and the tragedy in Duisburg Sean Nye and Ronald Hitzler
- Chapter 9 Protestival: global days of action and carnivalised politics at the turn of the millennium Graham St John
- Chapter 10 Alternative playworlds: psytrance festivals, deep play and creative zones of transcendence Alice O'Grady
- Chapter 11 No Spectators! The art of participation, from Burning Man to boutique festivals in Britain Roxanne Robinson
- Chapter 12 Musicking in Motor City: reconfiguring urban space at the Detroit Jazz Festival Anne Dvinge
- Chapter 13 Branding, sponsorship, and the music festival Chris Anderton
- Chapter 14 Everybody talk about pop music: Un-Convention as alternative to festival, from DIY music to social change Andrew Dubber
- Index