Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia
- Author: Connell, John
- Author: Gibson, Chris
Book
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Part I Music Festivals: Promises and Predicaments: Introduction
- The rise of music festivals: a means to regeneration?
- Who goes? Audiences, fans and fanatics
- What's it worth? Economic dimensions of music festivals
- Whose community? Conflict and identity. Part II Music Festivals: Reinventing Regional Places: Parkes: Australia's 'Elvis town'
- Creating classical country
- Tamworth: Australia's country music capital: Byron Bay: from alternative origins to festival overkill?
- Conclusion: music festivals and pathways to regional development
- Bibliography
- Index.