Reconceiving spatiality and value in the live music industries in response to COVID-19

Taylor, Iain; Raine, Sarah; Hamilton, Craig

doi:10.4324/9781003254805-8

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“…Theoretically, we draw on Lefebvre's (1991) theory of social space, namely the primacy of conceived space and the professional role played by festival producers, as a lens for framing spatial and temporal processes that produce intersecting competing logics of inclusion and exclusion. His ideas have been applied to a number of research contexts to, for example, interpret racialised geographies of urban space (McCann, 1999) and within and around music consumption and production (Prior, 2011;Taylor et al, 2020Taylor et al, , 2023), but we have shown how instructive it is for analysing music festival space.…”

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“…It is within this tumultuous context, as Bristol-based researchers, that we were examining how music festivals produce a social space where diverse histories, identities and the public are seen and heard. Moreover, at the same time, COVID-19 was exposing and intensifying ongoing issues around inequality and diversity within live events, prompting demands to find effective means to improve the cultural sector (Taylor et al, 2023). Together, these global events brought racial diversity into sharper focus at the local level of festival production in Bristol.…”

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Making space: Investigating the diversity conundrum for British music festivals

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Mogilnicka

2022

Social & Cultural Geography

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Culture always speaks to the history and meaning of place. Music festivals in particular carry considerable significance as they are produced through spatial and temporal processes that extend their symbolic and material meaning beyond their local settings. The onset of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in Bristol intensified debates about festival diversity. Drawing on interviews with Bristol-based festival producers, this article examines popular music festivals and the places, communities and identities they represent. Rather than repeating the common criticism of festivals for being too white, we contribute to the debates by unravelling complex processes embedded within festival production. Using Lefebvre's concept of conceived space, we argue that (racial) diversity is a spatial conundrum for music festivals. We demonstrate this through the way festival space is conceived: culturally -as it is framed within established music festival discourses; economically -through entrepreneurial networks of independent producers within local music cultures; socially -their ideals (including diversity), tastes and lifestyles inadvertently organise and represent particular symbolic and material formations of (racialised) identities and communities. Haciendo espacio: Investigando el enigma de la diversidad para los festivales de música británicos RESUMENLa cultura siempre habla de la historia y el significado del lugar. Los festivales de música en particular tienen una importancia considerable, ya que se producen a través de procesos espaciales y temporales que extienden su significado simbólico y material más allá de sus entornos locales. El inicio del COVID-19 y las protestas de Black Lives Matter (BLM) en Bristol intensificaron los debates sobre la diversidad de festivales. Con base en entrevistas con productores de festivales con sede en Bristol, este artículo examina los festivales de música popular y los lugares, las comunidades y las identidades que representan. En lugar de repetir las críticas comunes a los festivales por ser demasiado blancos, contribuimos a los debates desentrañando procesos complejos incrustados en la producción ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%