This paper aims to examine the cultural heritage of outdoor rock and pop music festivals in Britain since the mid-1960s, and relates it to developments in, and critiques of, corporate sponsorship in the contemporary music festival sector
Tag Archives: pop
Pop Festivals: Advisory [Stevenson] Committee on Pop Festivals Report and Code of Practice – HMSO (1973)
Pop Festivals and their Problems: Second Report of the Working Group on Pop Festivals – HMSO (1978)
Free Festivals: First Report of the Working Group on Pop Festivals – HMSO (1976)
Pompey Pop – guest post by Dave Allen, University of Portsmouth
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In the second of our guest blog posts, Dr Dave Allen from the University of Portsmouth writes about popular music in Portsmouth from 1944 till 1969. For more about the project, see the website here, or read Dave’s excellent blog. Pompey Pop In 2010 I came to Edinburgh University to describe my project “Pompey Pop” which covers popular music in …