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Festival Places

Revitalising Rural Australia

By: Chris Gibson (Editor), John Connell (Editor)

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Paperback | 25 January 2011

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Festivals have burgeoned in rural areas, revitalising old traditions and inventing new reasons to celebrate. How do festivals contribute to tourism, community and a rural sense of belonging? What are their cultural, environmental and economic dimensions? This book answers such questions - featuring contributions from leading geographers, historians, anthropologists, tourism scholars and cultural researchers. It draws on a range of case studies: from the rustic charm of agricultural shows and family circuses to the effervescent festival of Elvis Presley impersonators in Parkes; from wildflower collecting to the cosmopolitan beats of ChillOut, Australia's largest non-metropolitan gay and lesbian festival. Festivals as diverse as youth surfing carnivals, country music musters, Aboriginal gatherings in the remote Australian outback, Scottish highland gatherings and German Christmas celebrations are united in their emphasis on community, conviviality and fun.

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Festival Places is a rich and diverse collection of studies of the function of the cultural festival in constructing place and community in rural Australia. While deeply grounded in its individual case studies, the mix of disciplines and methodologies demonstrate the value of continually seeking new ways to perform cultural research. This is both a fascinating and an extremely useful book. -- Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, Australia Gibson and Connell's volume on festivals provides a wide angle perspective on what is going on 'out there'. Academics and students, community development practitioners, government policy-makers, are among those who will be interested in the insights, strategies, and festival outcomes that are discussed...while the volume focuses exclusively on Australia, it is a useful reference for identifying and understanding what is occurring in relation to festivals elsewhere in the world, notably in rural North America and Europe. The in-depth discussions entered into with the case studies provide rich snapshots of the challenges and opportunities that go hand-in-hand with rural community and regional economic development. -- Suzanne de la Barre, Umea University, Sweden Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 10:4, 341-343

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List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Exploring Rural Festivals
The Extent and Significance of Rural Festivals	p. 3
Histories of Agricultural Shows and Rural Festivals in Australia	p. 25
Rural Festivals and Processes of Belonging	p. 44
Nuts and Bolts: Making Festivals Happen
Local Leadership and Rural Renewal through Festival Fun: The Case of SnowFest	p. 61
Economic Benefits of Rural Festivals and Questions of Geographical Scale: The Rusty Gromfest Surf Carnival	p. 74
Greening Rural Festivals: Ecology, Sustainability and Human-Nature Relations	p. 92
Politics and Place: Culture, Nature and Colonialism
Performing Culture as Political Strategy: The Garma Festival, Northeast Arnhem Land	p. 109
'Our Spirit Rises from the Ashes': Mapoon Festival and History's Shadow	p. 123
Birthday Parties and Flower Shows, Musters and Multiculturalism: Festivals in Post-War Gympie	p. 136
On Display: Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show and the Assembly of Place	p. 155
Reinventing Rurality
Elvis in the Country: Transforming Place in Rural Australia	p. 175
Marketing a Sustainable Rural Utopia: The Evolution of a Community Festival	p. 194
ChillOut: A Festival 'Out' in the Country	p. 209
Festival People
Bring in Your Washing: Family Circuses, Festivity and Rural Australia	p. 229
Culturing Commitment: Serious Leisure and the Folk Festival Experience	p. 248
Tartans, Kilts and Bagpipes: Cultural Identity and Community Creation at the Bundanoon is Brigadoon Scottish Festival	p. 265
What is Wangaratta to Jazz? The (Re)creation of Place, Music and Community at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival	p. 280
Index	p. 294
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