ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which music festivals transform disparate individuals into collective abstractions – such as community, ‘scene’, nation and race – through engagement of the senses and the impact this has on our bodies and, hence, on how we experience and know the world ( Berger 1999; Martin 1995). We examine a specific music festival – the Noosa Jazz Festival, held in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland – in order to explore how bodies and the senses facilitate participation and engagement in festival activities. Non-representational theory is used to help to unpack and understand this type of participation and engagement.
