Going the distance: locating journey, liminality and rites of passage in dance music experiences

Festival space: gender, liminality and the carnivalesque

“…At festival time bright and revealing clothes are worn by performers which would not have been appropriate elsewhere (Jaimangal-Jones et al, 2010) as observed at Glastonbudget.When exploring gender and costume it is very important to acknowledge how the body is portrayed within the festival space. Women used costume comically at Glastonbudget and in some cases this had sexualised undertones.…”

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

“…One of the most common features explored in this research is how the enjoyment of attendance partly stems from how festivals present an 'escape' from, or 'alternative' to, the apparent drudgery of everyday life, often drawing on historical accounts of how festivals have long served as an effective means of maintaining the societal status quo by providing a 'safety valve' (Anderton, 2008) through which revellers are allowed temporarily to subvert wider social norms (Getz, 2010). As such, Browne (2009) discusses how a women-only festival in the US can be exciting, but is also something for which respondents must feel they 'are ready ' and Jaimangal-Jones et al (2010) describe how the appeal of the music festival derives from the 'liminal' space of unexpected and unusual experiences that it offers. O' Rourke et al (2011) similarly talk of the festival as a place that is explicitly apart from the pressures of everyday existence as rural locations help attendees to shake off the normalising constraints of demonstrable urban civility (see also Flinn and Frew, 2014).…”

Liminality and the possibilities for sex and romance at an international bike meeting: a structural modeling approach

“…The liminal nature of the vacation trip and of the tourism activities pass effectively by the transition in terms of place and time -tourists are doubly "out of time and out of place" (Wagner, 1977) -by the detachment from the worries of work, by the suspension of the social control, by the unusual consumption of food, alcohol or even drugs (Thorpe, 2012), by the "carnivalization" (Diken & Laustsen, 2004) and "staging" of these practices. All of these aspects, if not propitiate at least allow a certain level of "depersonalization", of transgression and excess (Jaimangal-Jones, Pritchard & Morgan, 2010) that may provide increased opportunities for seduction and sex. As Selänniemi wrote, Understanding tourism from this perspective, as a transition/transgression of both personal and social boundaries, which on the one hand liberates the tourist from certain norms and on the other hand accentuates the awareness of senses, may help us in understanding the multifaceted and complicated relation between tourism, romance and sex (2003: p.27).…”