Initiations, Interactions, Cognoscenti: Social and Cultural Capital in the Music Festival Experience
Open Research Online The Open University’s repository of research publications and other research outputs Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: social and cultural capital in the music festival experience Thesis How to cite: Wilks, Linda Jean (2009). Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: social and cultural capital in the music festival experience. PhD thesis The Open University. For guidance on citations see FAQs. c 2009 Linda Wilks Version: Version of Record Link(s) to article on publisher’s website: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21954/ou.ro.000063e2 Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online’s data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. oro.open.ac.uk Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: social and cultural capital in the music festival experience Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements of The Open University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Linda Jean Wilks BA MA MSc OU Business School The Open University February 2009 Abstract This thesis explores the role of social and cultural capital in the music festival experience. It does so by gathering observations and post-festival accounts from attendees at three separate music festivals located in England. The data were analysed using Fairclough’s approach to critical discourse analysis, resulting in the identification of styles and orders of discourse. Little research, particularly of a qualitative nature, has investigated the roles of cultural taste and social inter-relationships in the music festival experience. Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital and the inter-linked theory of social capital, developed with slightly different emphases by Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam, were selected as providing an appropriate theoretical framework.
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