Focus on World Festivals: Contemporary case studies & perspectives

Focus on World Festivals: Contemporary case studies and perspectives provides the reader with a contemporary overview of festival activity from around the world. Through its case-study focus this book can be utilised in several ways; to examine different types and genres of festivals across the world; to consider in detail specific festivals in specific contexts; to look at management and organisational issues in festival provision, and to illustrate debates and theories pertaining to festivals throughout the world. A companion text to Focus on Festivals: contemporary European case studies, it expands many of the central themes and issues to reach a global understanding of festivals. The key themes this book discusses are:

The nature of festivals, festivalisation and the growth of festival provision around the world

Festivals as 'glocal' players

The management and business of festivals in different locations responding to differing social, political and market contexts

The role of festivals in identity making

Festivals as sites of participation, co-creation and experiences