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Professional Volunteerism: Interwoven paradoxes in the management of Roskilde Festival
This paper investigates how volunteer managers from Roskilde Festival experience, enact, and respond to organisational paradoxes and how these...
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Festival People. The Professional Identities of Festival Organisers
Occupational identity is a complex phenomenon that involves the tensions between many forces; it is the result of individual and collective...
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Kink in an English Field: The Drinking, Drug use and Sexual Practices of English Festival-Goers Who Engage in Kink
Little is known about the other leisure activities of people who engage in kink, including sexual practices and the use of alcohol and other drugs....
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Organisational Symbolism and Festival Planning Practices
The material collected during the research phase of the project “The Festivalization of Values. Axionormative dimensions of music festivals in...
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An Examination of the Impacts of Volunteering and Community Contribution at a Community Festival Through the Lens of the Five Ways to Wellbeing
The aim of this study was to examine the perceptions, motivations and wellbeing impacts for volunteers and contributors to Broadstairs Folk Week. The...
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Popular Religion or Lived Religion? Exploring Indigenous Religious Festival Practice in Mexico
This article investigates the practice of lived religion in two contemporary indigenous communities in Mexico (San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca and El...
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Cultural Recovery and Reformation: Tourism and the Hornbill Festival at Kisama
The organic nature of cultural forms is often taken for granted. In indigenous cultures there is an organic connection between celebration, ritual,...
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From Imitation to Creation: About a Certain Case of a Community-based Festival
“30 years ago I certainly wouldn’t have filled out any questionnaire, because such things just didn’t interest me at all then”, declared one...
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Contemporary Transformations in the Brazilian Popular Catholic Festivals: the Case of the Holy Divine Spirit Festival (Festa do Divino)
The Azorean families, wherever they migrated, brought their cultural background in which there clearly stood out celebrations of the annual festival...
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A City in a Scroll: Hidden Crisis in “Along the River During the Qingming Festival”
“Along the River at the Qingming Festival” (“Qingming Shanghe Tu” in Chinese) by (hereinafter referred to as the “Qingming” scroll) by Zhang Zeduan...
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Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed: Zhao Benshan’s Comedy Sketches in the Spring Festival Gala and Their Impact on the Regional Stereotypes of North-East China
This chapter focuses on a household name in China, Zhao Benshan, and his North-East China-themed comedy sketches on the national stage. Using a mixed...
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Introduction: The Global Festival City
Chapter 1 introduces Edinburgh, the global festival city. Since its start in the mid-twentieth century,...
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Festival of Death: Global Stock Markets During the Pandemic
A stylized fact during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a total disconnect between the movements of indicators in the Main Street and in the Wall...
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Cruel Festival
This chapter was developed as an immediate response to what was happening globally, as the book was being written in early 2020 in the context of...
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The Dawson City Music Festival and a Small-Town Scene at the Periphery of the Music Industries
The Dawson City Music Festival has operated since 1979. This is noteworthy given the festival’s location of Dawson City, Yukon; a significant...
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‘A Smaller Mask’: Freedom and Authenticity in Autistic Space
Autscape is an autistic-led conference, organised annually in varying locations around England. Governed by a strict set of rules and regulations,...
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Tuvalu Live!: Live Re-Scoring, Transnational Digital Participation and Audience Engagement in a Film Festival Context
Through an examination of the case study of Tuvalu Live, this chapter addresses the reception of German film through festivals—specifically...
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Something for Everybody? Art, Community, the Unfamiliar, and Barrie Kosky at the Adelaide Festival
In this chapter, I focus on Barrie Kosky’s work as an administrator, and on how this relates to discourse and practice around art, taste and...
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Enslavement and Autonomy in Late Eighteenth-Century Albany, New York
In 1998, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc., excavated the remains of the John Bogart House basement in downtown Albany, New York. Archaeologists...
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Comparing Intercity Mobility Patterns among Different Holidays in China: a Big Data Analysis
With the relaxation of migration control and the rapid development of transportation in China, intercity mobility has remarkable effects on...
