Heritage and festivals in Europe: Performing identities

Ullrich Kockel (Editor), Cristina Clopot (Editor), Baiba Tjarve (Editor), Máiréad Nic Craith (Editor)

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Abstract

Heritage and Festivals in Europe critically investigates the purpose, reach and effects of heritage festivals. Providing a comprehensive and detailed analysis of comparatively selected aspects of intangible cultural heritage, the volume demonstrates how such heritage is mobilised within events that have specific agency, particularly in the production and consumption of intrinsic and instrumental benefits for tourists, local communities and performers. Bringing together experts from a wide range of disciplines, the volume presents case studies from across Europe that consider many different varieties of heritage festivals. Focusing primarily on the popular and institutional practices of heritage making, the book addresses the gap between discourses of heritage at an official level and cultural practice at the local and regional level. Contributors to the volume also study the different factors influencing the sustainable development of tradition as part of intangible cultural heritage at the micro- and meso-levels, and examine underlying structures that are common across different countries. Heritage and Festivals in Europe takes a multidisciplinary approach and as such, should be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of heritage studies, tourism, performing arts, cultural studies and identity studies. Policymakers and practitioners throughout Europe should also find much to interest them within the pages of this volume.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages236
ISBN (Electronic)9780429202964
ISBN (Print)9780367186760, 9780367777616
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences
  • General Arts and Humanities

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