Dancing to sustainable tunes: an exploration of music festivals and sustainable practices in Aotearoa

O'Rourke, Stephanie; Irwin, David; Straker, Jo

doi:10.1080/11745398.2011.639383

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“…Though some respondents in Browne's (2009) study talk positively about communal showers representing an enjoyable return to 'the land', others determinedly downplay the physical conditions in discussion with potential recruits for fear of deterring them. Regular festival attendees in New Zealand have also expressed a similar ambivalence since, for them, there is a fine line between mud adding to 'the memories' and the remembered disgust of 'walking in filth' (O'Rourke et al, 2011).…”

Section: The Physical Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: The Physical Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…For dance, specific environmental conditions are required, such as adequate music, spaces, and thermal conditions [ 9 ]. Nonetheless, loud music and thermal conditions have side effects on health, from hearing disabilities to vascular dysfunction [ 10 , 11 , 12 ], being more commonly studied on conservatory musicians and focused on students [ 11 , 13 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Conditions of Dance Rooms and Its Impact on Dance Conservatories Teachers’ Health (An Andalusian Study)

Redel-Macías

Río²,

Arezes

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Dance teachers have to be in long hours dancing. That entails repetitive movements, loud live music, and as well as forcing their voices. These demands can implicate severe health problems and other kind of illness as discomfort, stress, etc. However, the Spanish Ministry of Health only recognize as professional disease for this line of work, the vocal nodules. For this reason, this research studies the health problems in dance teachers in Andalusia, correlating the results of a survey carried out in different conservatories from Andalusia with measurement of noise emissions levels, assessment of noise exposure, and assessment of thermal environment in the classes measuring the thermal environment variables. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study where the influence of several sounds, such as tapping, castanets, and live music, on the health of dance teachers, musicians, and singers during flamenco classes has been researched. Results showed a correlation between some diseases, such as stress and the high level of sound in the classes. The sound levels were well above those established by European regulations reaching values higher than 85 dB(A) as equivalent continuous sound levels during the class time. This European regulation is stablished for an 8 h/day period, five days per week. The thermal environments are no adequate for this activity, mainly for high temperatures in Cordoba during summer. To improve the current working conditions, some recommendations were given to reduce the number of class hours and establish rest shifts, provide more information on health risks, or renovate the floor of some classrooms.

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“…It can also be observed that some events are going beyond a focus on their own environmental impacts and are actively seeking to play a role in shaping attendee attitudes and behaviors towards the environment more generally. Examples of this include the incorporation of environmental presentations and other environment-based educational activities into event programs (Harris, 2010;Mair & Jago, 2010;O'Rourke et al, 2011). Another force of note serving to move public events towards the adoption of more sustainable practices is the need to develop and maintain positive relationships with their respective host communities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although a number of studies have sought to identify event-related environmental impacts (e.g., Andersson & Lunberg, 2013;Bottrill, Papageorgiou, & Jones, 2009;Collins & Cooper, 2017;Dávid, 2009), relatively few have acted to identify the range of actions available to events seeking to reduce such impacts. Of these latter studies, some are case specific (e.g., Collins & Flynn, 2008;Harvey, 2009;Izawa, 2012), while others (e.g., Gallagher & Pike, 2011;Mair & Laing, 2012;O'Rourke, Irwin, & Straker, 2011) examine multiple events, often of a specific type (e.g., music festivals). In exploring this matter, some researchers have sought to place event environmental impacts into broad groupings, as has been done in this study, as a prelude to discussing management practices.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Exploratory Study of "Best Practice" in Environmentally Sustainable Event Management in Australian Public Events

Harris¹,

Schlenker²

2018

Event Management

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This study seeks to provide insights into "best practice" in the area of environmentally sustainable event management in Australian public events. In performing this role, it aims to: determine forces acting to drive engagement with environmental management practices; identify the key challenges event owners and managers face in seeking to adopt such practices; determine types of environmentally sustainable practices currently in use; establish how events are measuring their environmental performance; and identify those factors serving to facilitate or inhibit engagement by events with an environmental agenda. The article begins with a literature review of research germane to the study, along with an overview of the methodology employed. Key findings emerging from the application of this methodology suggest that actions in this area: have increasingly become an aspect of overall event planning; target multiple areas with the potential to generate environmental impacts; are driven primarily by organizer values and attendee and community expectations; and face constraints linked largely to the availability of resources, expertise, and time. This article acknowledges that the planning and delivery of environmentally sustainable events has become one of the critical challenges facing public event management, and as such it seeks to make a meaningful contribution to both the growing academic literature in this area, and equally importantly, to industry practice.

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Dancing to sustainable tunes: an exploration of music festivals and sustainable practices in Aotearoa

Cited by 20 publications

References 12 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

Environmental Conditions of Dance Rooms and Its Impact on Dance Conservatories Teachers’ Health (An Andalusian Study)

An Exploratory Study of "Best Practice" in Environmentally Sustainable Event Management in Australian Public Events

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