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Published (Version of record)CC BY-NC-ND V4.0, Open
Book chapter
Fans and fams: Experience and belonging aboard a cruise ship music festival
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism and Belonging, pp.230-243
Routledge, 1st
2021
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Abstract
Dozens of music festivals aboard cruise ships now ply the waterways of the world, ranging in genre from bluegrass to metal to indie rock. Attendees talk of the intense feelings of camaraderie and belonging, referring to each other and the artists as “ship fam”. This intense feeling of belonging is somewhat at odds with the location, which is a mobile geography and a non-place where it is not physically possible to “belong”. This chapter discusses the experience of cruise music festivals from the point of view of belongingness. Data were drawn from a series of interviews undertaken in 2016. The research finds that several aspects of the cruise festival, including the hyperreal and mobile geography of the ship itself, the promotion and production of “ship fam”, and the experience of the festival, actually enhance the sense of belonging and camaraderie. This in turn makes return visits more likely and thereby increases the financial viability of the festival.
Details
- Title
- Fans and fams: Experience and belonging aboard a cruise ship music festival
- Creators
- David Cashman - Central Queensland University
- Contributors
- Nicky van Es (Editor) - Erasmus University RotterdamStijn Reijnders (Editor) - Erasmus University RotterdamLeonieke Bolderman (Editor) - University of GroningenAbby Waysdorf (Editor) - Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Publication Details
- Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism and Belonging, pp.230-243
- Publisher
- Routledge; London
- Edition
- 1st
- Grant note
- OA Funder: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
- Identifiers
- 991013047413602368
- Copyright
- Open Access: This content is Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter