{"product_id":"9781907774010","title":"Every Day's A Festival!","description":"Despite their ubiquity and cultural prominence, the academic study of arts\u003cp\u003efestivals has long been neglected. The burgeoning festivals industry is,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehowever, firmly embedded in both the arts funding and weekly calendar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof European cities, and there is no doubt that festivals are fast becoming a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edefining feature of urban life in the twenty-first century. An assessment of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etheir nature and impact is more pressing than ever before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this volume explore the modern urban festival and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe difference it makes to the experience and management of diversity in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe city. Their research reveals an unsettling coupling of the celebration of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elocal diversity with institutional amnesia, in which the memory of a festival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehardly ever outlasts its funding. This book documents a key phenomenon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof our time, the supplanting of community-based remembering with the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erepetitive structures of events whose historic and interpretative depth is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elost amid a spiraling velocity of 'festivalization'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sean Kingston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033287508208,"sku":"9781907774010","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781907774010_p0.jpg?v=1763620332","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781907774010","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}