Identity in Festival Performances
Identity in Festival Performances
Assemblages of Power, Representation and Participation
As cultural, political, and economic spaces, festivals produce and negotiate identity, power, and representation. Michelle Thompson traces how music festivals become diverse communities while still gatekeeping and socially sorting groups of people. For performers, musical identity is fluid and hybrid, shaped by movement, language, stylistic choices, ideologies, and relationships with place. Yet, performances are often constrained by rigid classifications and structures. Drawing on ethnographic research, the study develops concepts such as ›participatory festival culture‹, ›musical code-switching‹, and ›moving identities‹ to explore the ethical and political dimensions of festival making.
Michelle Thompson is a digital ethnographer specializing in identity, event tourism, and culture. She completed her PhD at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada where she received a doctoral fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada and was nominated for a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Excellence.
- ISBN-13
- 9783837685718
- Publisher
- transcript
- Imprint
- transcript
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 260
- Dimensions
- 225 x 148 mm
- Language
- English