In Jonathan Wynn\u2019s \u201cMusic\/City: American Festivals and Place-making in Austin, Nashville, and Newport\u201d, Wynn writes about how festivals are changing the way cities function.\u00a0 Wynn believes that these festivals provide a different and better opportunity for cities to grow.\u00a0 These festivals allow more people to attend because they cost less than attending traditional sporting events.\u00a0 Also, festivals and concerts will bring in tourists from outside areas to help grow local economies.\u00a0 Cities are straying away from building traditional sporting venues because of the increased benefits of hosting festivals.<\/p>\n
There were a few interesting points brought up in class that I wanted to touch on in my blog post.\u00a0 When we spoke about Bowdoin acting as an entertainment machine, it was interesting to hear different perspectives of Ivies and the effect it has on the community.\u00a0 On one side, loud music, inebriated kids wandering all over the place, and plenty of littering all take place in Brunswick, which can weaken ties between Bowdoin and the community.\u00a0 On the other hand, Bowdoin students have an increase consumption throughout Ivies week.\u00a0 Students buy more alcohol and more food, which can help the local economy.\u00a0 Also, the increased purchase of narcotics can also help bolster the underground economy.\u00a0 Although it can be argued that Ivies brings out some bad habits in students, it is certain that helps out the Brunswick economy.<\/p>\n
Another interesting point brought up in class was how Bowdoin can act as an entertainment machine in different ways.\u00a0 Throughout the year, Bowdoin provides entertainment outlets for students and the larger Brunswick community.\u00a0 Sporting events, concerts, art exhibits, lectures, and many other events allow students and non-students interact as audience members.\u00a0 These events last throughout the school year and summer.\u00a0 However, during Ivies, Bowdoin changes and is strictly an entertainment machine for the students.\u00a0 During Ivies, many of Bowdoin\u2019s drinking policies change, which is something I have never really understood.\u00a0 Security monitors every Ivies event but does not really step in unless students are doing something extremely stupid.\u00a0 Drinking games and sometimes even hard alcohol are permitted.\u00a0 It is an interesting dynamic that also allows Ivies to be more fun, and also makes Bowdoin even more of an entertainment machine compared to a regular weekend.<\/p>\n
While we spoke a lot about Ivies, I was curious to see what people thought about cities straying away from traditional sporting events as entertainment.\u00a0 Boston, which is the closest city to me, has taken a noticeable shift away from sports and put a lot more emphasis on hosting concerts and festivals.\u00a0 In the past two years, Boston has said no to hosting the Olympics and no to building a soccer-specific stadium.\u00a0 Boston has revamped \u201cBoston Calling\u201d, which is the summer festival is hosts and doubled the size of it.\u00a0 Although it wasn\u2019t mentioned in Wynn\u2019s work, Boston is another example that he could have used to back up his argument.<\/p>\n
In Jonathan Wynn\u2019s \u201cMusic\/City: American Festivals and Place-making in Austin, Nashville, and Newport\u201d, Wynn writes about how festivals are changing the way cities function.\u00a0 Wynn believes that these festivals provide a different and better opportunity for cities to grow.\u00a0 These festivals allow more people to attend because they cost less than attending traditional sporting events.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}