Bridging and bonding: social capital at music festivals

Wilks, Linda

doi:10.1080/19407963.2011.576870

Cited by 97 publications

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“…Fredline, Jago, & Deery, 2003;Small, 2007); resident perceptions and attitudes towards festivals/events (E. Fredline & Faulkner, 1998, 2002a, 2002bXiao & Smith, 2004); influences on leisure; community identity and cohesion (Van Winkel & Woosnam, 2014); disruption and loss of privacy; crime and accidents; social and cultural capital (Arcodia & Whitford, 2006;Wilks, 2011); enhancing community capacity; and social demonstration effect. Getz's (2010) review of the literature highlighted that social and cultural impact research is the second largest area of research in festival studies.…”

Section: Social and Cultural Impact Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing the Impact of Festival and Event Attendance Upon Family Quality of Life (QOL)

Jepson¹,

Stadler²

2017

Event Management

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Quality of life (QOL) research has been well explored in medicine, psychology, and the social sciences, although it has received very little attention within festival and event studies. This proposition article is both conceptual and exploratory and will seek to establish the foundations of a framework to investigate the impact(s) festivals and events may have upon individual and family QOL and to set an agenda for research into QOL in the field of festival and event studies. The article begins with a review of literature, which sets the conceptual nature of the article in the area of festival studies and in doing so investigates interconnected themes such as: political, social, cultural, and personal impact discourses. Following this our article provides a review of literature introducing key QOL theories, concepts, and research undertaken in previous studies. The article then progresses naturally into a discussion of the key differences and relationships between individual and family QOL, and provides an overview of previous research in festivals and events to allow the study to develop research questions in order to situate this article and our future research agenda. Following the literature review we present a discussion of key methodological considerations in order to determine the most appropriate and practical framework for collecting and analyzing primary data to better understand the potential impacts of festivals and events on families' QOL. The final section of the article concludes and reflects upon our review of literature and research questions, which we hope will set an agenda for future research in this area and on the development of a framework to test QOL within events.

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Section: Social and Cultural Impact Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing the Impact of Festival and Event Attendance Upon Family Quality of Life (QOL)

Jepson¹,

Stadler²

2017

Event Management

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“…(2) Could a community of persons organized because of the musician and interested in the bonding social capital (Wilks 2011) become a community of music learners?…”

Section: Lessons From the Swamp For Music Communities And Educatorsmentioning

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Swamp Sistas: Beth McKee and a socio-musical swamp revival online and real time

Mills

2015

International Journal of Community Music

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Beth McKee, the singer/songwriter known for her Mississippi roots and music-recording career created a community of mostly American women known as the Swamp Sistas. Although the network was developed to energize McKee’s female fan base, it quickly became a virtual and real-time social fabric, where artists, authors, colleagues and friends weave an ongoing tapestry of tradition and renewal. McKee’s performances, tours, merchandise and albums ground the artistic and social repertoire of the Swamp Sistas. The message of sharing with and supporting one another served as a powerful and creative vehicle for McKee’s musical presentations to new audiences. Her collaborations with educators, authors and artists fuelled the shared socio-musical trend, along with the performance venue she created in collaboration with the Swamp Sistas called the ‘La La’. The Swamp Sistas phenomenon is about fans who became co-creators. They inspired song lyrics, planned, staged and performed with McKee or in other groups at La Las, changing a musician and her audience into a community, complete with shared values and social engagement. This article describes the Swamp Sistas based on research in the field that included online and real time musical and social participant observation. Lessons from the swamp include emphasis on the participatory and co-creative culture of Swamp Sistas and implications for building community in music education settings.

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“…The role that festivals play in communities has predominantly been explored in relation to the impacts on the communities themselves. There has been a rise in studies related to the role of social capital in music festivals specifically (Wilks, 2011) and the involvement of communities in the planning and running of events (Clarke and Jepson, 2011;Clarke, 2013, 2015). Indeed, Clarke and Jepson (2011, p. 8) comment that, "to be successful community festivals must ensure that the community is central to all cultural production processes and that the communities" cultures are evident throughout the festival.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%