General Readings on Festivals
Abrahams, Roger D. “An American Vocabulary of Celebrations.” In Time Out of Time: Essays on the Festival. Ed. Alessandro Falassi. Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 1987. Abrahams_American Vocab of Celebrations
Crompton, John L. “Motives of Visitors Attending Festival Events.” Annals of Tourism Research 24, no. 2 (1997): 425-439. Crompton
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. Holt Paperbacks, 2007.
Klaic, Dragan. Festivals in Focus. Budapest: Central European UP, 2014.
Maeng, Hae Yeong, Hyeong Yu Jang, and Jinxi Michelle Li. “A Critical Review of the Motivational Factors for Festival Attendance based on Meta-Analysis.” Tourism Management Perspectives 17 (Jan 2016): 16-25. Maeng
Turner, Victor, “Introduction.” In Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual. Ed. Victor Turner. Washington, D. C. : Smithsonian Institution P, 1982: 11-30. Print.
Race and Ethnicity
Brown, Rodger Lyle. Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South. U Mississippi P, 1997.
Bungert, Heike. “Demonstrating the Values of ‘Gemütlichkeit’and ‘Cultur’: The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910. In Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century. Ed. Geneviève Fabre, Jürgen Heideking, and Kai Dreisbach. New York: Berghahn, 2001: 175-193.
Bungert on German festivals in Milwaukee
Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940. New York: Vintage, 1999.
Kurashige, Lon. “The Problem of Biculturalism: Japanese American Identity and Festivals before World War II.” Journal of American History 86, no. 4 (Mar 2000): 1632-1654.
Mason, Courtney W. “The Banff Indian Days tourism festivals.” Annals of Tourism Research 53 (July 2015): 77-95. Mason
Olmstead, Brett. “Mexican Fiestas in Central Michigan: Celebrations and Identity Formations, 1920-1930.” Michigan Historical Review 41, no. 2 (Fall 2015): 33-57.
Pershing, Linda. “You can’t do that, you’re the wrong race”: African American women storytellers at a contemporary festival.” Women & Language 19 (Spring 1996): 57-63. Pershing(YouCantDoThat)
Skipper, Jodi and David Wharton. “Diasporic Kings and Queens: Lafayette’s Black Mardi Gras Performances in Historical and Hemispheric Contexts.” Southern Quarterly 52, no. 4 (Summer 2015): 133-154. Skipper(DiasporicKingsandQueens)
Tolney, Stewart and E.M. Beck. A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930. Urbana: U Illinois P, 1995.
Turner, Victor. “Carnival, Ritual, and Play in Rio de Janeiro.” In Time Out of Time: Essays on the Festival. Ed. Alessandro Falassi. Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 1987.
Walker, William. “We Don’t Live Like that Anymore”: Native Peoples at the Smithsonian’s Festival of American Folklife, 1970-1976.” American Indian Quarterly 35, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 479-514.
White, Shane. “It was a proud day”: African Americans, festivals, and parades in the North, 1741-1834.” Journal of American History 81 (June 1994): 13-50.
Wiggins, William H. “‘They Closed the Town Up, Man!’: Reflections on the Civic and Political Dimensions of Juneteenth.” In Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual. Ed. Victor Turner. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian P, 1982. Wiggins on Juneteenth
Food/Subject Festivals
Coyle, Kitty. “Blessed with Dogwood: The Story of a Small Town Festival.” North Louisiana History 33, no. 4 (Fall 2003): 103-123. Coyle(BlessedwithDogwood)
Lewis, George. “Celebrating Asparagus: Community and the Rationally constructed food festival.” Journal of American Culture 20, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 73-78. Lewis(CelebratingAsparagus)
Organ, Kate, Nicole Koenig-Lewis, Adrian Palmer, and Jane Probert. “Festivals as agents for behavior change: A study of food festival engagement and subsequent food choices.” Tourism Management 48 (June 2015): 84-99. Organ
Procter, David E. “Victorian Days: Performing Community through Local Festival.” In We Are What We Celebrate: Understanding Holidays and Rituals. Ed. Amitai Etzioni and Jared Bloom. New York: New York UP, 2004. Procter, Victorian Days
Rotuno-Johnson, Michelle. The Marion Popcorn Festival. The History Press, 2014.
Skipper, Jodi and David Wharton. “Diasporic Kings and Queens: Lafayette’s Black Mardi Gras Performances in Historical and Hemispheric Contexts.” Southern Quarterly 52, no. 4 (Summer 2015): 133-154.
Snow, Whitney. “Arab’s Poke Salat Festival.” Alabama Living 68, no. 5 (May 2015): 16. http://alabamaliving.coop/article/poke-salat/
White, Shane. “ ‘It was a proud day’: African Americans, festivals, and parades in the North, 1741-1834.” Journal of American History 81, no. 1 (June 1994): 13-50.
Music Festivals
Adler, Thomas. Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festivals. University of Illinois Press, 2011.
Anderton, Chris. “Branding, Sponsorship, and the Music Festival.” In The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture. Ed. George McKay. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Cummings, Joanne and Jacinta Herborn. “Festival Bodies: The Corporeality of the Contemporary Music Festival Scene in Australia.” In The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture. Ed. George McKay. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Cummings and Herborn
Gebhardt, Nicholas. “‘Let There Be Rock’! Myth and Ideology in the Rock Festivals of the Transatlantic Counterculture.” In The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture. Ed. George McKay. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Hudson, Simon, Martin S. Roth, Thomas J. Madden, and Rupert Hudson. “The effects of social media on emotions, brand relationship quality, and word of mouth: An empirical study of music festival attendees.” Tourism Management 47 (Apr 2015): 68-76. Hudson
King, Stephen A. “Blues Tourism in the Mississippi Delta: The Functions of Blues Festivals.” Popular Music & Society 27, no. 4 (Dec 2004): 455-475. King(BluesTourism)
McKay, George. “Introduction.” In The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture. Ed. George McKay. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. McKay_Intro to The Pop Festival
Regis, Helen, et al. “Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.” Journal of American Folklore 121, no. 482 (Fall 2008): 400-440. Regis(ProducingtheFolk)
Robinson, Roxy. “No Spectators! The Art of Participation, from Burning Man to Boutique Festivals in Britain.” In The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture. Ed. George McKay. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Robinson on Burning Man
Rubinstein, Peter. “Music Festivals are Being Destroyed by Fans & It Needs to Change.” Electronic Dance Music News, http://www.youredm.com/2015/07/02/having-fun-at-festivals-should-not-be-at-the-environments-expense/ (accessed January 15, 2016).
Sheehy, Michael. “Woodstock.” Journalism History 37, no. 4 (Winter 2012): 238-246.
Film Festivals
Film Festival Research Network
de Valck, Marijke. “Film Festivals, Bourdieu, and the Economization of Culture.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 23.1 (2014).
—. Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2008.
West
Smith, Sheldon. “The Re-Establishment of Community: The Emerging Festival System of the American West.” Journal of American Culture 8, no. 3 (Fall 1985): 91-100. Smith(TheRe-establishmentofcommunity)
Cultural Festivals
del Barrio, Maria Jose, Maria Devesa, and Luis Cesar Herrero. “Evaluating intangible cultural heritage: The case of cultural festivals.” City, Culture and Society 3, no. 4 (Dec 2012): 235-244. delBarrio
Jankowiak, William and Todd C. White. “Carnival on the Clipboard: An Ethnological Study of New Orleans Mardi Gras.” Ethnology 38, no. 4 (Fall 2009): 335-349. Jankowiak(CarnivalontheClipboard)
Lindahl, Carl. “The Presence of the Past in the Cajun Country Mardi Gras.” Journal of Folklore Research 33, no. 2 (May-Aug 1996): 125-153. Lindahl(PresenceofthePast)
Tourism
Akhoondnejad, Arman. “Tourist loyalty to a local cultural event: The case of Turkmen handicrafts festival.” Tourism Management 52 (Feb 2016): 468-477. Akhoondnejad
Kim, Samuel Seongseop, Sangsoo Choi, Jerome Agrusa, Kuo-Ching Wang, and Youngmi Kim. “The role of family decision makers in festival tourism.” International Journal of Hospitality Management 29, no. 2 (June 2010): 308-318. Kim
Kruger, Stefan. “Examining the Influence of the Wine Festival Experience on Tourists’ Quality of Life.” Social Indicators Research 111, no. 2 (Apr 2013): 435-452. Kruger
Prentice, Richard and Vivien Andersen. “Festival as Creative Destination.” Annals of Tourism Research 30, no. 1 (Jan 2003): 7-30. Prentice
Environmental
Bain, Katie. “Trashed: Music Festivals are Environmental Disasters.” LAWeekly, July 11, 2013. http://www.laweekly.com/music/trashed-music-festivals-are-environmental-disasters-2614424
Laing, Jennifer and Warwick Frost. “How green was my festival: Exploring challenges and opportunities associated with staging green events.” International Journal of Hospitality Management 29, no. 2 (June 2010): 261-267. Laing
McKay, George. “Introduction.” In The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture. Ed. George McKay. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. McKay_Intro to The Pop Festival
Rubinstein, Peter. “Music Festivals are Being Destroyed by Fans & It Needs to Change.” Electronic Dance Music News, http://www.youredm.com/2015/07/02/having-fun-at-festivals-should-not-be-at-the-environments-expense/ (accessed January 15, 2016).
Sakurai, Ryo, Susan K. Jacobson, Hiromi Kobori, Richard Primack, Kohei Oka, Naoya Komatsu, and Ryo Machida. “Culture and climate change: Japanese cherry blossom festivals and stakeholders’ knowledge and attitudes about global climate change.” Biological Conservation 144, no. 1 (Jan 2011): 654-658. Sakurai
Song, Hak Jun, Choong-Ki Lee, Soo K. Kang, and Sug-jin Boo. “The effect of environmentally friendly perceptions on festival visitors’ decision-making process using an extended model of goal-directed behavior.” Tourism Management 33, no. 6 (Dec 2012): 1417-1428. Song
Miscellaneous
Gabbert, Lisa. “Making Objects, Creating Places: McCall Winter Carnival.” Folklore Forum 33, no ½ (2002): 7-33. Gabbert(MakingObjects)
—. “Situating the Local by Inventing the Global: Community Festival and Social Change.” Western Folklore 66, no. ¾ (Summer/Fall 2007): 259-280. Gabbert(SituatingtheLocal)
Santino, Jack. “The Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture.” Western Folklore 68, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 9-26.
Schrift, Melissa R. “The Wildest Show in the South: The Politics and Poetics of the Angola [Louisiana] Prison Rodeo and Inmate Arts Festival.” Southern Cultures 14, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 22-41. Schrift(WildestShowintheSouth)
Selberg, Torunn. “Festivals as Celebrations of Place in Modern Society: Two Examples from Norway.” Folklore 117, no. 3 (Dec 2006): 297-312.
