Festivals and the cultural public sphere
edited by Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli and Gerard Delanty
Bok · Engelsk · 2011
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| Utgitt | London : Routledge , 2011
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| Omfang | XI, 208 s.
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| Opplysninger | Introduction / Liana Giorgi and Monica Sassatelli -- 1. Urban festivals and the cultural public sphere : cosmopolitanism between ethics and aesthetics / Monica Sassatelli -- 2. Between tradition, vision and imagination : the public sphere of literature festivals / Liana Giorgi -- 3. Art biennales and cities as platforms for global dialogue / Nikos Papastergiadis and Meredith Martin -- 4. Festivals and the geography of culture : African cinema in the "world space" of its public / James F. English -- 5. The cultural public sphere : a critical measure of public culture? / Jim McGuigan -- 6. Festivals, local and global : critical interventions and the cultural public sphere / Jean-Luis Fabiani -- 7. International festivals in a small country : rites of recognition and cosmopolitanism / Motti Regev - 8. Festivalization, cosmopolitanism and European culture : on the sociocultural significance of mega-events / Maurice Roche -- 9. Festival spaces, green sensibilities and youth culture / Joanne Cummings, Ian Woodward and Andy Bennett -- 10. Cannes : a French international festival / Jerome Segal and Christine Blumauer -- 11. 'Space is the place' : the global localities of Sónar and WOMAD music festivals / Jasper Chalcraft and Paolo Magaudda -- Conclusion. On the cultural significance of arts festivals / Gerard Delanty. - Festivals and the cultural public sphere provides the first major social-scientific study of contemporary arts festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of these festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate and as examples of a particular aesthetic cosmopolitanism. The book approaches contemporary festivals as relatively autonomous social texts that need interpretation and contextualization. This perspective, combined with a diversified set of theoretical approaches and research methods, and guided by a common thematic rationale, places the volume squarely within some of the most debated topics in current social sciences. Furthermore, the multifaceted nature of festivals allows for unusual but useful connections to be made across several felds of social inquiry. This timely edited collection brings together contributions from key figures across the social sciences, and is valuable reading for undergraduate students, postgraduates and professionals working within the areas of contemporary social theory, cultural theory and visual culture
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| ISBN | 978-0-415-58730-3. - 978-0415-71496-9
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