This book presents a contemporary overview of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. It is able to do so by taking a powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach.
It comes from a hugely expert and experienced team of editors and authors drawn from across Europe and is based on the groundbreaking work of the European Festival Research Project (EFRP). The EFRP and the book are focused on understanding the causes and implications of the current growth in festivals internationally, and the implications this has across major sectors ranging from tourism to culture.
The key themes the books brings out are: (1) The politics, programming, impacts, governance and management of festivals; (2) The social, cultural, political, economic and physical contexts in which festivals operate; (3) The potential of festivals to explore and stimulate a more risk-oriented approach to the arts; (3) Key conclusions, trends, forecasts and recommendations for the sector in the future.
For the section Leadership and Management, David Dooghe wrote about the lessons learned out of the urban strategy Festival City_Rotterdam (2008) and his experiences of being the curator of urban sound gallery Soundpiece (2009-2013).
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