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Your guide to what is going to become of the great British summer bonanza.
From oil disasters in Mauritius to street artists in South Africa, the story of rubbish in the media helps shape popular culture and environmental change.
From VR music festivals to immersive meeting spaces, headsets are go.
Why 50/50 festival line-ups are not an easy solution to gender inequality.
From the hippie heaven of the 1970s to the massive mainstream event it is now, Glastonbury has always found a way to fuse popular culture with a potent political message.
New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey pushes back the date for the earliest settlement of the site by 200 years – and reopens debate on Glastonbury’s origin myths.
Is impartiality a red herring in the age of blogs and social media?
Pop music has lost the political edge it had in the 1970s. But there are signs that may be returning.
Festival-goers are changing and their expectations of what makes a headline act are becoming more diverse.
Imagining the 100th anniversary festival, after decades of severe climate change.
T in the Park is on the rocks. So what else is new?
Jump on the Glastonbury bus, bring your tent back home afterwards, and promote long term behaviour change.
When did revellers stop rebelling?
Forget the main stage headliners, the real festival heroes might be selling you crocodile burgers and mango smoothies.
It seems like every year there is controversy over Glastonbury lineups and the worst sin in popular music – that of “selling out”.
Future archaeologists sifting through Glastonbury’s earth will look for clues as we do at Stonehenge.
The rock promoter thinks festivals are on the way out. But he couldn’t be further from the truth.
Today, British music festivals are big business. So you’d be forgiven for assuming that they’d morphed into mere simulations of the politically wrought 60s counterculture that was the foundation of the…
Why do people go to Glastonbury? No, it’s not a rhetorical question. Once you take away socialising, camping, sex, drugs, fast food, crystal healing, herbal remedies, face painting and sunburn/mudsliding…
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Dean, Boston Conservatory
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Lecturer in Events Management, Leeds Beckett University
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Course Director MA (Music Industries), University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in Marketing, Dublin City University
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Professor in Bioarchaeology, Head of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
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Research associate, Cardiff University
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Professor in Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Aston University
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Lecturer and Programme Leader, BA International Tourism and Events Management, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Met Office Head of Climate Impacts Research and Professor, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor in Festival and Event Management, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Archaeology, University of Reading
