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- Title
Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia.
- Authors
Gibson, Chris; Waitt, Gordon; Walmsley, Jim; Connell, John
- Abstract
Examining a database of 2,856 festivals in Australia and survey results from 480 festival organizers, we consider how nonmetropolitan cultural festivals provide constraints as well as opportunities for economic planners. Cultural festivals are ubiquitous, impressively diverse, and strongly connected to local communities through employment, volunteerism, and participation. Despite cultural festivals being mostly small-scale, economically modest affairs, geared around community goals, the regional proliferation of cultural festivals produces enormous direct and indirect economic benefits. Amidst debates over cultural and political issues (such as identity, exclusion, and elitism), links between cultural festivals and economic development planning are explored.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; FESTIVALS; ECONOMIC development; REGIONAL planning; ART &; music; CULTURE
- Publication
Journal of Planning Education & Research, 2010, Vol 29, Issue 3, p280
- ISSN
0739-456X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0739456X09354382