This study aims to examine how young peoples' participation in a local youth music festival may effect their subjective well-being. In more detail, this study attempts to examine the relations ...between the festival features, the feelings young people develop, social identification and subjective well-being in young people's participation in music festivals. The research was conducted in Eskisehir, Turkey. The sample population consisted of individuals participated in youth music festival EskiFest. The questionnaire forms were randomly handed out at the exit of the festival area to potential respondents and collected back after completion. Consequently, a total of 398 usable questionnaires were included in the analysis. The results confirm that festival characteristics as music quality, places and atmosphere, information and facilities are effective in creating positive emotions and social identity formation which consequently effects subjective well-being of young people. The results of the study will assist to the festival organizers in developing strategies for better quality organization of the festivals and increasing the satisfaction of the young participants by understanding their emotions.
Prior experiential marketing research suggests that extraordinary consumption experiences take place within antistructural frames, i.e. outside the realms of everyday life. This paper challenges that ...notion, through an ethnographic study of consumers attending the Primavera Sound music festival in Barcelona, Spain. We demonstrate that festival attendees perceive their experiences to be extraordinary, despite these occurring within ‘everyday’ structural frames. Consumers' extraordinary experiences unfold through their negotiation of a series of structural and antistructural marketplace tensions, including commercialism/authenticity, ordinary/escapist, and immersion/communing. We outline the theoretical implications of our research for the changing nature of extraordinary consumption experiences, in light of post-postmodern consumer culture. We conclude with managerial implications and provide suggested avenues for future research.
Introduction
Prompt help‐seeking behaviour by music festival attendees can reduce risks associated with drug use; however, little is known about perceived barriers to help‐seeking when experiencing ...or witnessing illness at music festivals. We explored potential barriers and their association with festivalgoer characteristics.
Methods
We conducted an on‐site cross‐sectional survey of attendees at New South Wales music festivals in 2019/2020. Perceived barriers to help‐seeking in the hypothetical event of the respondent or a friend becoming unwell at the festival were assessed, and regression analyses were conducted to identify characteristics associated with these barriers.
Results
Across six festivals, 1229 people were surveyed and four‐fifths (83.2%) reported ≥1 barrier: 32.7% fear of getting in trouble with the police, 20.6% not knowing where to find help, 17.2% not knowing how unwell someone might be and 15.3% concern about friends or relatives finding out. In multivariable analyses, people of diverse sexuality and people using drugs that day had greater odds of reporting fear of trouble with the police. People reporting drug use that day had lower odds of reporting not knowing where to find help. Men, gender‐diverse people and people using drugs that day had greater odds of reporting concern about friends or relatives finding out.
Discussion and Conclusions
Our data substantiate concerns regarding policing strategies and their impact on festivals. Initiatives to support conversations about drugs with friends and families may be best targeted to younger people and those from gender‐diverse backgrounds.
Research studies about the attributes of music festival experiences and the effect of information technology in music festival help us to understand Millennials. With the purpose of providing more ...insights about the perception and behavior of young people at a festival, this study aims to investigate how festival attributes and the interactivity of information sources affect festival attendee satisfactions and behavioral intentions in a music festival. The results are expected to assist festival organizers in managing and implementing market-oriented service strategies to improve the quality of festivals and therefore to enhance the attendee satisfactions and their behavioral intentions.
Mohr explores the transformative power of music festivals in Western Canada. Transformational festivals are loosely defined as multi-day outdoor events that revolve around the ecstatic experience of ...electronic dance music, visionary art and performance, workshop curriculum, sacred space and ceremony, artisans and vendors and a conscious intention to support transformation and healing processes. She attended the Astral Harvest Festival in Driftpile, Alberta and the Shambhala Music Festival in Salmo, British Columbia in the summer of 2015.
Gaia explores the cultural history of the free tekno movement. The style of events orchestrated by the Mutoids throughout the years, can be considered as the archetype of a free tekno party: illegal, ...mainly with electronic tribal music, radical street theater, surreal science-fiction means of locomotion, techno-punk-inspired costumes, terrifying monsters that move around spitting fire. Considering how and why the free tekno movement emerged as a countercultural phenomenon in England, subsequently spreading throughout Europe, it is essential to delve into the history of free festivals. Arguably, the first free festival in the UK took place in Shepon Mallet, a small town very close to Glastonbury, on 19th September 1970, just a day after the passing of Jimi Hendrix. With the name "Pop, Folk and Blues," the festival happened at the Worthy Farm Pilton with a one-pound entrance fee, all farms milk free and sheltered fields for camping.
Farrugia discusses electronic dance music, rave culture, and Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) in Detroit. It's been 27 years since she entered the world of electronic dance music and rave ...culture. It didn't happen in Detroit but across the river in her hometown of Windsor ON. The history of techno as Black music had to a large extent been white-washed, even within Detroit, the Blackest city in the nation, where it had all begun. The inaugural festival took place at Hart Plaza on the city's waterfront over Memorial Day weekend. It was free and organized to showcase the talent that emerged from the city and to gather the region's divided populace. DEMF was also a civic performance that first and foremost was intended for the city and its people. In 2006, DEMF became Movement and it was around this time that we saw an explosion of EDM festivals in the US, which helped ensure its continued success. Movement still takes place every Memorial Day weekend in the same place, at Hart Plaza on the waterfront downtown, but a global fan base has supplanted a local one.
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