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Ric Knowles' study is a politically urgent, erudite intervention into the ecology of theatre and performance festivals in an international context. Since the 1990s there has been an exponential increase in the number and type of festivals taking place around the world. Events that used merely to be events are now 'festivalized': structured, marketed, and promoted in ways that stress urban centres as tourist destinations and “creative cities” as targets of corporate enterprise. Ric Knowles examines the structure, content, and impact of international festivals that draw upon and represent multiple cultures and the roles they play in one of the most urgent processes of our times: intercultural negotiation and exchange. Covering a vast geographical sweep and exploring festival models both new and ancient, the work sets compelling new standards of practice for post-pandemic festivals.
Chapter 5 focuses on a phenomenon I have called 'The Intracultural Transnational'. It concerns itself with a type of festival that brings together an identifiable cultural, regional, or linguistic community across continental, hemispheric, or international borders. These festivals represent an emerging decolonial paradigm that has much in common with the one I have identified as developing from an Indigenous tradition, with festivals serving as sites at which generative debates internal to their specific communities can cross latter-day, enforced borders and forge transnational solidarities while acknowledging, celebrating, or mediating intracultural and historical differences. These festivals of intracultural encounter, however vexed, might serve as alternative models of the kinds of negotiation and exchange across difference that this book sets out to track down. They work to bring audiences together across their differences, most often to address historical divisions brought about by colonialisms and neocolonialisms of various kinds, to constitute trans- rather than international communities, and to ally with the Indigenous festival paradigm in compatible ways.
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