Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is the author of Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Social Study of Musical Performance InstitutionsChapter 2. Conceptualizing Musical Performance CultureClubs in Everyday Urban LifeChapter 3. The Social Study of Music in CitiesChapter 4. The Commercial Institutionalization of the Rock Club in New York Chapter 5. How Did the Rock Club Evolve in Europe?Music Festivals in the Summer SeasonChapter 6. A Worldview History of Music FestivalsChapter 7. The Evolution of Anglophone Global CultureChapter 8. Three Industry Evolutions That Changed Festival CultureChapter 9. Festival Video and Social MediaChapter 10. ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

”Many of us do indeed love music venues and summer music festivals, and in this book Holt does a terrific job of showing how even such beloved institutions are tied up with excessive commercialisation, dubious policy developments and property speculation. That shouldn’t stop people from enjoyment, but it might help us understand our pleasures better by forestalling naïve assumptions that contemporary musical experience is innocently separate from the nastier elements of our capitalist societies.”

Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is the author of Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Social Study of Musical Performance InstitutionsChapter 2. Conceptualizing Musical Performance CultureClubs in Everyday Urban LifeChapter 3. The Social Study of Music in CitiesChapter 4. The Commercial Institutionalization of the Rock Club in New York Chapter 5. How Did the Rock Club Evolve in Europe?Music Festivals in the Summer SeasonChapter 6. A Worldview History of Music FestivalsChapter 7. The Evolution of Anglophone Global CultureChapter 8. Three Industry Evolutions That Changed Festival CultureChapter 9. Festival Video and Social MediaChapter 10. ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

”Many of us do indeed love music venues and summer music festivals, and in this book Holt does a terrific job of showing how even such beloved institutions are tied up with excessive commercialisation, dubious policy developments and property speculation. That shouldn’t stop people from enjoyment, but it might help us understand our pleasures better by forestalling naïve assumptions that contemporary musical experience is innocently separate from the nastier elements of our capitalist societies.”

Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is the author of Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Social Study of Musical Performance InstitutionsChapter 2. Conceptualizing Musical Performance CultureClubs in Everyday Urban LifeChapter 3. The Social Study of Music in CitiesChapter 4. The Commercial Institutionalization of the Rock Club in New York Chapter 5. How Did the Rock Club Evolve in Europe?Music Festivals in the Summer SeasonChapter 6. A Worldview History of Music FestivalsChapter 7. The Evolution of Anglophone Global CultureChapter 8. Three Industry Evolutions That Changed Festival CultureChapter 9. Festival Video and Social MediaChapter 10. ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

”Many of us do indeed love music venues and summer music festivals, and in this book Holt does a terrific job of showing how even such beloved institutions are tied up with excessive commercialisation, dubious policy developments and property speculation. That shouldn’t stop people from enjoyment, but it might help us understand our pleasures better by forestalling naïve assumptions that contemporary musical experience is innocently separate from the nastier elements of our capitalist societies.”