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3. Research Methodology in the Analysis of Festivals

Author : Waldemar Cudny

Published in: Festivalisation of Urban Spaces

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Abstract

In this chapter, the key theoretical and methodological aspects of a scientific festival analysis are discussed. The first part of the chapter presents the different aspects of research on festivals. The reader can find here the characteristic of how this issue is studied in different sciences such as event studies or geography, describing the origins and study aspects. This part of the chapter explains why scientists became interested in festivals in the second half of the twentieth century and describes in detail major research themes, explored mainly as a part of these sciences. The second part of the chapter is devoted to the methodological issues. Beginning of the chapter presents basic terms, such as method or methodology, and next, research methods used in the study of festivals are presented. Methods are divided into general and detailed, quantitative and qualitative, and field and laboratory methods. Another part of the second section of this chapter is devoted to a detailed description of the main types of research methods used in the analysis of festivals. Using numerous examples, quantitative and qualitative, and field and laboratory methods used for studying this phenomenon are characterised. This chapter is especially aimed at students researching different aspects of festival development and its various impacts.

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The definition and typology of events were presented in Sect. 2.​1.
 
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Metadata
Title
Research Methodology in the Analysis of Festivals
Author
Waldemar Cudny
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Festivalisation of Urban Spaces

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-31995-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-31997-1

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31997-1_3