LEADER 03411nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910825584203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-73857-6 010 $a1-283-24182-X 010 $a9786613241825 010 $a1-136-73858-4 010 $a0-203-81878-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203818787 035 $a(CKB)2550000000033351 035 $a(EBL)684086 035 $a(OCoLC)727065535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC684086 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL684086 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10466509 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL324182 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000033351 100 $a20101130d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFestivals and the cultural public sphere /$fedited by Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli, and Gerard Delanty 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Advances in Sociology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-71496-6 311 $a0-415-58730-1 327 $aFestivals and the Cultural Public Sphere; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Urban festivals and the cultural public sphere: Cosmopolitanism between ethics and aesthetics; 2 Between tradition, vision and imagination: The public sphere of literature festivals; 3 Art biennales and cities as platforms for global dialogue; 4 Festivals and the geography of culture: African cinema in the 'world space' of its public; 5 The cultural public sphere - a critical measure of public culture?; 6 Festivals, local and global: Critical interventions and the cultural public sphere 327 $a7 International festivals in a small country: Rites of recognition and cosmopolitanism8 Festivalization, cosmopolitanism and European culture: On the sociocultural significance of mega-events; 9 Festival spaces, green sensibilities and youth culture; 10 Cannes: A French international festival; 11 'Space is the Place': The global localities of the So?nar and WOMAD music festivals; Conclusion: On the cultural significance of arts festivals; Index 330 $aFestivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as examples of a particular aesthetic cosmopolitanism.The book approaches contemporary festivals as relatively autonomous social texts that need interpretation and contextualisation. This per 410 0$aRoutledge Advances in Sociology 606 $aFestivals$xSocial aspects 606 $aManners and customs 615 0$aFestivals$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aManners and customs. 676 $a394.26 701 $aDelanty$b Gerard$0606996 701 $aGiorgi$b Liana$01681803 701 $aSassatelli$b Monica$0323197 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825584203321 996 $aFestivals and the cultural public sphere$94051471 997 $aUNINA