Part 2: Festivals:
Why study festivals?
Teachers should use festivals as
a way of teaching pupils about the geography of music and how it can impact
people and place. These impacts are both positive and negative and occur over a
range of scales, times and spaces; locally-globally. Pupils will recognise music
in the context of geography, and how music culture can affect people and places
(environments). Music brings together a range of groups and individuals, all of
whose ‘culture’ (morals, ethics, principles, life style, etc.) is influenced by
music geographically.
Cultural Geography Linkages (note: the interconnection between each
linkage):
- Arts and Literature: Festivals manifest a number of musical arts, which influence festival audiences and their culture. For example, Greenpeace at Glastonbury promote the NGO literature (banners, books, etc), which over time will influence individuals/groups to act differently towards the environment.
- Groups: Festivals like Glastonbury bring together several diverse groups of all ages from metal heads, to indie rockers, students to celebrities. These groups all embrace different cultures and all congregate together in one massive fields. This congregation allows people to see different cultures, and in the long run can influence other individuals/groups.
- Media and Representation: Media coverage of festivals can be negative and positive; depending on group behaviour and site management (safety and environmental). This can lead to the promotion of one group from another, which can have global significant e.g. the student movement in the 90’s.
- Ethnicity and Religion: Festivals bring together a number of diverse races and religions, from global communities, all of which again congregate together and influence each other, expanding cultural knowledge and understanding.
- Commodities and globalization: Festivals generate economic investment selling goods from global companies, allowing all cultures/communities to purchase local commodities from the host country. In addition, as mentioned above, with groups gathering together, the world of culture is becoming more globalized.
- Branding: A generalisation of festivals is that they are for students and part of a drunken culture of shame. Is this true? Do over 30+ attend? Think of the economic benefits they bring to the local/regional area.
Resources:
Use the following link to gain
access to a Power Point. This Power Point gives teachers a guide on how to
deliver a lesson on designing a festival. Pupils can work on the task
individually or in groups. I would suggest allowing the use of GIS in the form
of Google Maps to aid location selection, as well as to enable pupils to
research other festivals like Glastonbury and V-Festival, to see what the
organizers and planners have/had to consider when setting up the festival. NB:
This will be time consuming so give extra when planning.
In addition, try to get pupils to
think about the impact music festivals have on the local-global environment, as
well as local-global culture in general. For example, music lovers from all
around the world travel to Glastonbury every year (except the jubilee year),
and so environmental is negative because of the CO2 generated from traveling
via plane, car or bus. However, some festivals have set up bicycles lots for
locals to store their bikes on when travelling to festivals, reducing previous
CO2 particulates. Every little helps I guess!
http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupId=914157
(look on the left hand side of the website for the PP link).
Additional Resources:
For KS3 the following Power Point
from TES will be of use. GO TO THE TES WEBSITE AND LOG IN!
- The geography of music festivals- created 09 April 2013, viewed 117- Lesson done with year 9. Looks at distribution, impacts and the future of sustainable festivals.
The below link is a useful scheme
of work plan, that will be able to help with planning lessons with regards to
music festivals. NOTE: It will download a word document to your computer.
- RGS resources for festival map work and sustainability.
- UK tourism fact files on music tourism.
http://www.ukmusic.org/assets/media/UK%20Music%20-Music%20Tourism.pdf
No comments:
Post a Comment