ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the Q-study of Organisers' Perspectives on Factors of Festival Success in Crete" by Dimitrios P. Stergiou and Eirini Pehlivanidou, from the Hellenic Open University, Greece and David Airey, from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. It explores Stakeholder Power and Community Alienation at Glastonbury Festival and argues that it is becoming more and more recognised that the needs of the host community need to be met and satisfied in order to ascertain their support for future music festivals. The book offers a powerful analysis of performances of nation, gender and rurality in the sporting and heritage festival of Landsmot in Iceland. It also offers a discussion of innovation and empowerment, or rather disempowerment by Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, from Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and Anne-Mette Hjalager, from the University of Southern Denmark.
