The Pop Festival

George McKay is a leading writer on alternative cultures and music. He is Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK; his website is georgemckay.org

Acknowledgements

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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