Geen feest zonder ons - Een onderzoek naar ervaringen omtrent gelijkwaardigheid en verschil van mensen met een handicap op meerdaagse muziekfestivals in Nederland
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2023-03-27
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This research examines the research question “how do people with a disability experience feelings of equity and inequity at Dutch multiday music festivals, and to what extend do their needs correspond to festival organiser’s considerations regarding accessibility?”. In order to answer this question, seven interviews have been conducted, coded and analysed: six with festival visitors with a disability, and one with a festival organiser. Because of the limited amount of academic literature on experiences of people with a disability at music festivals, the decision was made to use three texts as a broad, explorative theoretical framework. In this framework, insights on ableism and anti-ableism from Den Brok-Rouwendal have been combined with McKay’s findings on the link between music experience and having a disability, and McCarthy’s theory on the optimal arts experience, in order to be able to have a look at what it is that makes a festival experience optimal for people with a disability. The results showed that the respondents experience feelings of equity when they were not being confronted by their disability. This allows them to lose themselves in the music and in the moment and they can possibly get into a flow experience. They experience feelings of inequity when the opposite is the case and they are being confronted with their disability – either by themselves (for example trough pain) or by others (with either a positive or a negative approach). The interview with the organiser showed that the organiser’s considerations did not fully correspond to the visitor’s needs. To conclude, the outcome of this research seems to indicate that people with a disability are in need of freedom and autonomy during their multiday music festival visit. Freedom and autonomy improve their festival experience and typically occur when they experience feelings of equity in a flow experience. Therefore, further research on flow experience (for people with a disability) at music festivals is recommended.
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