Uithollend Pop Festival: Een historische ontwikkeling van het ideologische muziekfestivalconcept en de hedendaagse culturele mogelijkheden voor de Nederlandse sector
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2025-02-07
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This master’s thesis argues that increasing competition within the contemporary Dutch
festival sector, combined with a lack of structurally targeted (government) support and limited
financial resources, is a key factor behind the substantive erosion of the countercultural
ideological practice in modern music festivals. By offering a historical overview, it shows an
interlinkage of processes of commercialization, commodification, festivalization, and the
development of government policies. Three categories are introduced to demonstrate how sector competition and national cultural policies shape the ideological practices of festivals. These help to conclude that the freedom of festivals to engage in countercultural practice depends primarily on financial support from stable organizations (for 'Industry greats') or government subsidies (for 'Subsidized enterprises'). In contrast, 'Independent enterprises' face a forced erosion of countercultural elements due to a lack of financial stability and supportive policies. Consequentially, the large-scale, unchecked competition within an inherently commercial context, signals a regressive process that undermines the countercultural elements within the music festival concept.
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