The Festivalization of Culture explores the links between various local and global cultures, communities, identities and lifestyle narratives as they are both constructed and experienced in the festival context. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from Australia and Europe, festivals are examined as sites for the performance and critique of lif 'This is a fascinating collection of chapters exploring and illuminating the multifaceted contemporary festivalscape. The essays are theoretically informed, empirically grounded and offer new insights that clearly demonstrate the importance of festival attendees to the development of socio-cultural and political meanings and experiences of festival events. Recommended for anyone with an interest in music and arts festival research.' Chris Anderton, Southampton Solent University, UK