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I would like to draw your attention to a new report, From Glyndebourne to Glastonbury: The Impact of British Music Festivals, an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded literature review written by Dr Emma Webster and me.
The report was produced as part of The Impact of Festivals project, a 12-month project funded under the AHRC's Connected Communities Programme, working with research partner organisation the EFG London Jazz Festival. Emma Webster is the Research Associate for the project.
The report has surveyed the academic and cultural policy/'grey' literature around music festivals, and identified a set of key findings, a number of economic impact reports, gaps for future research, as well as considered the impact of academic research on festivals themselves. It's accompanied by an extensive online annotated bibliography, which is freely accessible and searchable.
A PDF version of the report is available through the UEA digital repository<https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59132/1/Festival_Report_online.pdf>. If you would like a hard copy of the report please contact the project administrators, at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. For more information about the Impact of Festivals project, please see our website<https://impactoffestivals.wordpress.com/>, or get in touch.
The report has already garnered some pleasing feedback, from researchers and festival organisers:
 "Within festivals we need and value the criticality of academic research. A report like this helps us shape, make sense, rethink what we are doing." John Cumming OBE, Director, EFG London Jazz Festival
"This report is excellent-a pleasure to read, and I will be recommending it to my students and colleagues." Professor Stephanie Pitts, Head of the Department of Music, University of Sheffield
"This report is an irrefutable qualification of the value and impact of our sector and an amazing resource for anyone involved in the organisation of a music festival." Steve Mead, Artistic Director, Manchester Jazz Festival
"This is an articulated, analytical assessment of the multiple ways in which festivals impact on society and on the music scene itself. The review helps promoters organise their thoughts around the focal points, and local authorities better realise what festivals do - or can do - for their communities. I hope the research develops internationally." Francesco Martinelli, Siena Jazz Archive Director
"Congratulations, a very useful and interesting read which I am sure will be of value to many people.  There is no doubt at all that there is a shortage of good research in the festival industry." Steve Heap, General Secretary, Association of Festival Organisers

We hope some of you will find our report of interest and use.
George McKay


Prof George McKay, AHRC Leadership Fellow Connected Communities<http://connected-communities.org/>,

Film Television & Media Studies, University of East Anglia,

Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

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Current publications: ed. The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture<http://georgemckay.org/thepopfestival/> (Bloomsbury, 2015)

From Glyndebourne to <https://www.academia.edu/25388367/From_Glyndebourne_to_Glastonbury_The_Impact_of_British_Music_Festivals> Glastonbury: The Impact of Music Festivals in Britain<https://www.academia.edu/25388367/From_Glyndebourne_to_Glastonbury_The_Impact_of_British_Music_Festivals> (AHRC/UEA, 2016)




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