Hi,

I think that you can have a look on the work of :

Céline Barthon · Isabelle Garat · Maria Gravari-Barbas · Vincent Veschambre : L'inscription territorial et le jeu des acteurs dans les événements culturels et festifs... (link below)

Emilie Simard : "Montréal, ville de festivals" entre culture et tourisme culturel : le cas de Montréal en lumière" (on ResearchGate, I presume...)

Eva Kammer : "Usages et représentations de l'espace public urbain dans le contexte du Festival International de Jazz de Montréal" (also on Researchgate)

Also, I publish on that topic,few years ago :

Villes et festivals : approche comparée des festivals urbains en Grande-Bretagne et en France, PU Septentrion (available on my ResearchGate homepage)

Vevey Fête des Vignerons : un pas-de-deux suisse (link below)

Sorry but all are in French. If you do not succeed to read, at least, you can have a look on the bibliographies and the references, some are translate and some are in english.

All the best,

Christophe

Article L’inscription territoriale et le jeu des acteurs dans les év...

Article Vevey - Fête des Vignerons 99 : un saisissant pas-de-deux su...

Dear Jeamil,

As Christophe noted, this topic is so typically French and Québécois that I am affraid I shall also indicate you articles in French, mostly about the urban impact of the Avignon Theatre festival:

By E. Ethis:

http://www.cairn.info/les-publics-de-la-culture-politiques-publiques--9782724609212-page-181.htm

by Arnaud Brennetot:

http://www.persee.fr/doc/geo_0003-4010_2004_num_113_635_21409

and by Isabelle Garat:

http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=AG_643_0265

As for the English speaking world, you might be interested in these articles about Edinburgh:

by Kirstie Jamieson:

http://sac.sagepub.com/content/7/1/64.short

by C. Gratton:

http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19951810676.html;jsessionid=74B39E442170408D24A9120559578190

by Bernadette Quinn:

http://usj.sagepub.com/content/42/5-6/927.short

and this research initiative by Jack Carlsen et al.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/em/2007/00000011/F0020001/art00002

I hope this is useful to you

best regards

d.

Dear Jeamil,

to turn the topic into the past, let me refer to the Athenean practice of theatric festivals, and the way Athens was built, with a special attention paid to the architectural solution of its theatre.

See David Wiles: Greet Theatre Performance. An Introduction, Cambridge, 2000.

Kind regards,

Ferenc

Hi,

You can also, usefully, have a look on the following articles (files below)

:

- Catriona Kelly, FROM “COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY MONUMENTS” TO

“NATIONAL HERITAGE” The Preservation of Leningrad Churches, 1964-1982

- Tania da Rocha Pitta (2001) L'ÉPHÉMÈRE DANS LES VILLES PROPOSITION POUR UNE RÉNOVATION SYMBOLIQUE DE L'ESPACE URBAIN. De Boeck Supérieur | « Sociétés » 2001/1 no 71 | pages 37 à 45

- Catherine Grout (2013)  L’ARCHITECTURE COMME EXPÉRIENCE SENSORIELLE,

CULTURELLE ET SOCIALE?Au sujet de quelques projets de Naito Hiroshi,

Association Française des Anthropologues | « Journal des anthropologues »

2013/3 n° 134-135 | pages 109 à 128

Hope, it could help you,

Sincerelly,

Christophe Gibout

Thank you very much for your contribution

In the case of music festivals the situation is: The reconfiguration of the music industry’s profit model has propelled forward the unique relevance of the live music experience, in its myriad of forms, a uniqueness simultaneously enhanced by recent and massive technological developments which indelibly transform consumption/share logics of those same experiences. Literature focusing on music festivals has highlighted their role as spaces of articulation and experimentation of increasingly reticular identity and lifestyle politics, within a framework of vast and rapid changes linked to globalization and late modernity. Accordingly, pop-rock festivals stand as a format of cultural events crucial for understanding several transformation processes: programming and music diffusion; modelling and sharing music tastes; mutually articulated aesthetic, recreational and convivial pleasure of music. Such subjects have been thoroughly studied in other countries (USA, UK, AU) – however, this has not yet occurred in Portugal. Maybe, was interesting to make a parallel with theater festivals.

We intend the pop-rock festivals as spaces of experimentation within a reconfigured industry; spaces of artistic and aesthetic tensions, between massification, segmentation and the underground, upholding music scenes marked by spectacularity and/or liminarity; factors of local development and fruition logics linked to well-being and quality of life (i.e., tourism), highlighting the articulation between local/global; and contexts of public policy deployment (development, culture, etc.), on a local, national and European level.

Some important references:

MCKAY, George (2000) - Glastonbury: A very English fair. London: Gollancz. ISBN 978-0575068070.

GUERRA, Paula (2013) - A instável leveza do rock: génese, dinâmica e consolidação do rock alternativo em Portugal [The unstable lightness of rock: genesis, dynamics and consolidation of alternative rock in Portugal]. Porto: Afrontamento. ISBN 978-972-36-1342-1.

SILVA, Augusto Santos; BABO, Elisa Pérez; GUERRA, Paula (2013) – Cultural policies and local development: the Portuguese case. Portuguese Journal of Social Science [online]. Vol. 12, no. 2, p. 195-209. [Accessed 20 Jan 2015]. Available in: http://pjss.iscte.pt/index.php/pjss/article/view/101. ISSN 1476-413X.

MCKAY, George (ed.) (2015) - The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture. Continuum Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-1623569594.

ALI-KNIGHT, Jane; ROBERSTON, Martin; FYALL, Alan; LADKIN, Adele (eds.) (2009) - International perspectives of festivals and events: paradigms of analysis. London: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-045100-8.

DOWD, Timothy J.; LIDDLE, Kathleen; NELSON, Jenna (2004) - Music Festivals as Scenes: examples from Serious Music, Womyn’s Music, and SkatePunk. In BENNETT, Andy; PETERSON, Richard A. - Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0826514516. p. 149-167.

THROSBY, David (2010) - The economics of cultural policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 780521687843.

AITCHISON, Cara; PRITCHARD, Annette (eds.) (2007) - Festivals and events: culture and identity in leisure, sport and tourism. Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association. ISBN 978-1905369058.

NILAN, Pam; FEIXA, Carles (2006) - Global Youth? Hybrid identities, plural worlds. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415370714.

Thank you  Paula for your infomation, its very important.