Why Huddersfield? Media representations of a festival of contemporary music in the ‘unlikeliest’ of places
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12724446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Voase (0000-0003-0374-6505, University of Lincoln, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 146-156 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-6825 • E-ISSN: 1747-7654 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14766820903134779 |
| OpenAlex | W1992055489 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
A festival of contemporary music was established in 1978 in Huddersfield, an industrial town in northern England. The event acquired an international reputation, enjoyed to the present day. Yet the news media continued to report as 'surprising' the successful juxtaposition of avant-garde art with an industrial town. An explanation is constructed via an analytic discussion of fashionability, the avant-garde, and the nature of continuing news. This discussion is further set within the context of the generic urban transition from the industrial to the post-industrial, and the movement known as cultural regeneration. The work of Simmel, Nietzsche, and Bourdieu are deployed in these analyses. The concluding argument is that the news media are relating, simultaneously, three stories: that of the success of a festival; that of the cultural regeneration of urban centres seeking a role in a new economy; and a generic rags-to-riches narrative. The news reporting of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is thus a multiple metaphor for a continuing cultural change
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Contemporary classical music · Context (archaeology · Literature · Media studies · Metaphor · Music festival · Musical · Narrative · Popular music · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Music History and Culture · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
The field of cultural production
Distinction
The role of flagship cultural projects in urban regeneration
From The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
The field of Cultural Production
Distinction
Archaeology of Knowledge
The production of belief
Authorship
Media Making
The Nature of News Rules
The Politics of Cultural Policy in Urban Regeneration Strategies
Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms
Making News by Doing Work
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2017 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |