Autore
Collins, Randall

Titolo
I festival come rituali pubblici: successi, fallimenti e mediocrità
Periodico
Polis
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 27 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 13 - Pagina finale: 28

Treating festivals as a precious property, perhaps unfairly appropriatedby elites and excluding others, the academic and political discussionof contemporary art festivals too often neglects their ritual dimension,which is a constitutive feature of festivals as public celebrations.But how many arts festivals are indeed joyful or exuberant celebration?And are these emotions the appropriate criteria of success or failure?We must also ask ourselves: successful for whom, failures or mediocritiesfor what kinds of participants, and why? I will use the theory of interactionrituals formulated by Durkheim chiefly for religious and politicalevents, and extended by Goffman and others into a pervasive sociologyof the ritualism of everyday life. This theory shows the ingredientsthat make a festival (as a ritual) successful, or unsuccessful, or somewherein between - average or mediocre.



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