Do music festival communities address environmental sustainability and how? A Scottish case study
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 257180
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1017/S0261143019000035
- Title of journal
- Popular Music
- Article number
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- First page
- 252
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0261-1430
- Open access status
- Exception within 3 months of publication
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/166676/
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This article emerged from the AHRC-funded project ‘Fields of Green’, led by University of Edinburgh. An interdisciplinary collaboration between a sociologist of music, a song-writer, an environmental charity, and an urban planner, Fields of Green combined social science with creative practice-based research. The project also used a co-production approach to bridge a gap between academic, industry, and artistic practice by incorporating Creative Carbon Scotland (CCS), the key organisation in Scotland advising arts organisations on issues of environmental sustainability. The article’s significance stems from synthesising multiple bodies of disciplinary knowledge to conclude that, rather than being characterised as sites for utopian socio-cultural experimentation or simply as sites where waste and noise are produced, music festival communities engage in complex and often contradictory behaviours when it comes to responding to – and making sense of – their own complicity in social challenges such as climate change. Originality lies in the article’s account of an innovative methodology; instead of siloing constrasting methods (such research could belong in the field of popular music studies, ecomusicology, or urban planning), the article recognises that the complexity associated with moving towards a more environmentally sustainable culture demands an approach which foster new connections between different disciplines and, in the case of music festival sites, between the different actors and agendas in music festival communities. The paper is published in Popular Music as an international multi-disciplinary journal and to raise awareness amongst an academic and practitioner audience with key messages around the sustainability of the music industry. ‘Fields of Green’ research has been widely disseminated in a diverse set of international conferences including, by Connelly, the Royal Geographic Society (2015). The publication has an international audience, and was recently discussed in the New Yorker in an article on carbon neutrality at music festivals.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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