Research Catalog

Title

Festivals and the cultural public sphere / edited by Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli and Gerard Delanty.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Giorgi, Liana.
• Sassatelli, Monica.
• Delanty, Gerard.

Description

xi, 208 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as examples of a particular aesthetic cosmopolitanism. The book approaches contemporary festivals as relatively autonomous social texts that need interpretation and contextualisation. 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 fields of social inquiry. This timely edited collection brings together contributions from key figures across the social sciences, and proves to be valuable reading for undergraduate students, postgraduates, and professionals working within the areas of contemporary social theory, cultural theory, and visual culture."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Routledge advances in sociology ; 59

Uniform Title

Routledge advances in sociology ; 59.

Subject

• Festivals > Social aspects
• Art and Design
• Festspiel
• Öffentlichkeit
• Festivaler > sociala aspekter

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Urban festivals and the public cultural sphere : cosmopolitanism between ethics and aesthetics / Monic Sassatelli -- Between tradition, vision, and imagination : the public sphere of literature festivals / Liana gorgi -- Art biennales and cities as platforms for global dialogue / Nikos Papastergiadis and Meredith Martin -- Festivals and the gepography of culture : African cinema in the 'world space' of its public / James F. English -- The cultural public sphere -- a critical measure of public culture? / Jim McGuigan -- Festivals, local and global : critical interventions and the cultural public sphere / Jean-Louis Fabiani -- International festivals in a small country : rites of recognition and cosmopolitanism / Motti Regev -- Festivalization, cosmopolitanism and European culture : on the socio-cultural significance of mega-events / Maurice Roche -- Festival spaces, green sensibilities and youth culture / Joanne Cummings, Ian Woodward and Andy Bennett -- Cannes : a French international festival / Jérôme Segal and Christine Blumauer -- 'Space is the place' : the global localities of the Sónar and WOMAD music festivals / Jasper Chalcraft and Paolo Magaudda.

ISBN

• 9780415587303
• 0415587301
• 9780415714969
• 0415714966
• 9780203818787 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2010048558

OCLC

• ocn641536095
• 641536095
• SCSB-1608802

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library