Socio-spatial authenticity at co-created music festivals

Isabelle Szmigin, Andrew Bengry-Howell, Yvette Morey, Christine Griffin and Sarah Riley

Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, vol. 63, issue C, 1-11

Abstract: From the early days of hippie counter-culture, music festivals have been an important part of the British summer. Today they are commercialised offerings without the counter-cultural discourse of earlier times. Drawing on participant observation, interviews and focus groups conducted at a rock festival and a smaller boutique festival, the paper examines how their design, organisation and management are co-created with participants to produce authentic experiences. The paper contributes to research on authenticity in tourism by examining how authenticity emerges and is experienced in such co-created commercial settings. It presents the importance that the socio-spatial plays in authenticity experiences and how socio-spatial experience and engagement can also be recognised as a form of aura.

Keywords: Authenticity; Music festivals; Co-creation; Socio-spatial; Aura (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2016.12.007

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