EVERY DAY'S A FESTIVAL: DIVERSITY ON SHOW

SUSANNE KUCHLER~LASZLO KURTI~HISHAM ELKADI

ISBN 10: 1907774017 / ISBN 13: 9781907774010

Verlag: SEAN KINGSTON PUBLISHING, 2011

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• Titel: EVERY DAY'S A FESTIVAL: DIVERSITY ON SHOW
• Verlag: SEAN KINGSTON PUBLISHING
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1907774017
• ISBN-13: 9781907774010
• Einband: HARDCOVER
• Auflage: FIRST EDITION.
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Inhaltsangabe

Despite their ubiquity and cultural prominence, the academic study of artsfestivals has long been neglected. The burgeoning festivals industry is,however, firmly embedded in both the arts funding and weekly calendarof European cities, and there is no doubt that festivals are fast becoming adefining feature of urban life in the twenty-first century. An assessment oftheir nature and impact is more pressing than ever before.The contributors to this volume explore the modern urban festival andthe difference it makes to the experience and management of diversity inthe city. Their research reveals an unsettling coupling of the celebration oflocal diversity with institutional amnesia, in which the memory of a festivalhardly ever outlasts its funding. This book documents a key phenomenonof our time, the supplanting of community-based remembering with therepetitive structures of events whose historic and interpretative depth islost amid a spiraling velocity of ’festivalization’.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susanne Küchler is Professor of Anthropology at University College London, Department of Anthropology and one of the scientific leaders for the Sustainable Development in a Diverse World (SUSDIV) project funded by the Sixth Network of Excellence (NoE) Programme. László Kürti teaches at the University of Miskolc, and the Karoli Gaspar University in Budapest, Hungary and has conducted fieldwork in North America, Romania and Hungary. From 2001 to 2006 he served as the Secretary of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Hisham Elkadi, also a scientific leader for the SUSDIV project funded by the Sixth Network of Excellence Programme, is Head of The School of Architecture and Building at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Contributors: Alaknanda Patel, Monica Stroe, Mirjana Lozanovska, Rossella Lo Conte, David Beynon, Manuela Hernández Sánchez and Ljiljana Simic.