Rethinking Music Festivals as a Staged Event: Gaining Insights from Understanding Visitor Motivations and the Experiences They Seek

Pegg, Shane; Patterson, Ian

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“…A focus on how collectives develop conventions, instead of the apparently fixed preferences of individuals, is less common in the festivals literature. This literature, building as it often does on marketing approaches, can tend towards visitor segmentation in the hope of identifying how the seemingly specific needs of particular groups of customers are most effectively met (see, for example, Pegg and Patterson, 2010;Bowen and Daniels, 2005). By contrast, we were interested in whether, by providing certain facilities, festival organisers could be creating new visitor needs as much as catering to those that were assumed already to exist.…”

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Should there be more showers at the summer music festival? Studying the contextual dependence of resource consuming conventions and lessons for sustainable tourism

Hitchings¹,

Browne

Jack

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Should there be more showers at the summer music festival? Studying the contextual dependence of resource consuming conventions and lessons for sustainable tourism

Hitchings¹,

Browne

Jack

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…Gelder and Robinson (2009) undertook a comparative study of motivation for attending Glastonbury Festival and V Festival, two festivals more akin to the one chosen here, applying six motivators in their quantitative research. Pegg and Patterson (2010) looked into music festival-goers' motivations to attend an Australian country music festival using quantitative research methods and, although their findings are consistent to a large extent with Bowen and Daniels (2005) , why and how the resulting eight motivations were selected remains unclear. Blešić, Pivac, Stamenković, and Besermenji (2013) used twenty two motivational items developed from the literature in their quantitative research and identified four motivation categories.…”

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“…For example, some studies based at country, classical, traditional Scottish, or jazz music festivals noted that the majority of festival-goers were over 35 (Formica & Uysal, 1998;McMorland & Mactaggart, 2007;Oakes, 2010;and Pegg & Patterson, 2010). Other studies of ethnic, folk, or multi-genre music festivals have shown the majority of attendees to be below 35 ( Blešić et al, 2013;Bowen & Daniels, 2005;and Gelder & Robinson, 2009).…”

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Music festival motivation in China: free the mind

Wood

2014

Leisure Studies

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This paper explores the extent to which music festival attendance is 'universally' motivated or determined by the Chinese cultural and socio-political context.A novel qualitative approach was employed comprising observation of social media conversations and 'chat room' interviews with members of a festival online community. Seven motivators were identified, some similar to those in Western studies but others more specific to festival-goers in mainland China.The culturally specific motivators were identified as 'spiritual escape' and 'spiritual pursuit' and the universal motivators as 'togetherness', 'love of the music', 'novel experience', 'music sharing', and 'educational enrichment'. This paper focuses on the two culturally embedded motivators only.The implications of the study are that, although, growing, there are still very few music festivals featuring 'pop' or 'western' style music and these few are relatively new to Chinese people. Their attendance at them is, therefore, motivated differently to attendees at similar festivals in western countries. These motivating factors are mediated by the particular social, political and cultural factors at work in this complex country. The findings indicate that although many of the motivational factors for attending a music festival appear to be universal there are clearly factors which are culturally bound and therefore unique to the cultural context. These differences appear to be created by the social constraints, rapidly changing economy and the many contradictions inherent in modern mainland China. These conditions create a greater contrast between everyday life in mainland China and the liminal hedonistic space provided by the Festival. Further research is needed to validate theses initial findings within China and to explore how rock music festival motivations differ in other non-western cultures.

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“…Stebbins (2001) refers to literary tourism as a form of serious leisure, suggesting that the activity is enjoyed because of the complexity and challenge required for its consumption. Further, it is an increasingly significant example of cultural capital (Bourdieu 1984) where books, place and food have significant trajectory in a daily market of experience (Mehmetoglu and Engen 2011;Pegg and Patterson 2010;Pine and Gilmore 1998) and which serve to fulfill peoples' creative needs.…”

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Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050

Robertson¹,

Yeoman²

2014

Tourism Recreation Research

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This conceptual paper uses a scenario planning process to facilitate possible futures for literary festivals, a form of festival tourism that has grown rapidly in the developed and developing countries of the world in the early decades of the 21 st Century and which continues to grow towards 2050. The paper addresses this in the context of two significant cities, Shanghai -a megacity in China, and Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. The paper offers two scenarios for literary festivals, one drawn from science fiction and the other from a process of prognosis. The aim of this work is to contribute to research in festival tourism studies by exploring the signposts and signals that may confer the future role, form and function of literature and the format and activity of literary festivals and literary festival tourism in a changing world. Utilizing Signals and Signposts, the work contributes to the body of work which seeks strategic responses to rapid change, rapid urbanization and possible zones of uncertainty that may await literary festivals and associated tourism and community activity in the future. Keywords

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Rethinking Music Festivals as a Staged Event: Gaining Insights from Understanding Visitor Motivations and the Experiences They Seek

Cited by 110 publications

References 16 publications

Should there be more showers at the summer music festival? Studying the contextual dependence of resource consuming conventions and lessons for sustainable tourism

Should there be more showers at the summer music festival? Studying the contextual dependence of resource consuming conventions and lessons for sustainable tourism

Music festival motivation in China: free the mind

Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050

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