Acknowledgements -- Picture credits -- Contributors -- Introduction -- George McKay -- Chapter 1. -- 'The pose ... is a stance': popular music and the cultural politics of festival in 1950s Britain -- George McKay -- Chapter 2 -- Out of sight: the mediation of the music festival ...Acknowledgements -- Picture credits -- Contributors -- Introduction -- George McKay -- Chapter 1.
-- 'The pose ... is a stance': popular music and the cultural politics of festival in 1950s Britain -- George McKay -- Chapter 2 -- Out of sight: the mediation of the music festival -- Mark Goodall -- Chapter 3 -- 'Let there be rock!' Myth and ideology in the rock festivals of the transatlantic counterculture -- Nicholas Gebhardt -- Chapter 4 -- 'As real as real can get': race, representation, and rhetoric at Wattstax, 1972 -- Gina Arnold -- Chapter 5 -- The artist at the music festival: art, performance and hybridity -- Rebekka Kill -- Chapter 6 -- Photo-essay: Free festivals, new travellers, and the free party scene in Britain, 1981-1992 -- Alan Lodge -- Chapter 7 -- Festival bodies: the corporeality of the contemporary music festival scene in Australia -- Joanne Cummings and Jacinta Herborn -- Chapter 8 -- The Love Parade: European techno, the EDM festival, and the tragedy in Duisburg -- Sean Nye and Ronald Hitzler -- Chapter 9 -- Protestival: global days of action and carnivalised politics at the turn of the millennium -- Graham St John -- Chapter 10 -- Alternative playworlds: psytrance festivals, deep play and creative zones of transcendence -- Alice O'Grady -- Chapter 11 -- No Spectators! The art of participation, from Burning Man to boutique festivals in Britain -- Roxanne Robinson -- Chapter 12 -- Musicking in Motor City: reconfiguring urban space at the Detroit Jazz Festival -- Anne Dvinge -- Chapter 13 -- Branding, sponsorship, and the music festival -- Chris Anderton -- Chapter 14 -- Everybody talk about pop music: Un-Convention as alternative to festival, from DIY music to social change -- Andrew Dubber -- Index.