Introduction to Chapter One
This chapter introduces alternative culture and its events, and surveys previous ethnographic research conducted on alternative events. It consists of two parts. Following an introduction to the alternative culture movement (ACM), part one investigates alternative cultural events (ACEs). Here, I identify the key criteria of ACEs before devising a non-exhaustive historical inventory. Six separate event-clusters, including the three variant forms of alternative lifestyle event (ALE), are delineated. The latter, characteristically polydimensional, are what I call alternative cultural heterotopia (ACH), a discussion and definition of which concludes part one. In part two, I discuss previous ethnographic research projects conducted on separate ALEs. It will be clear that critical and comparative analysis of theoretical and methodological approaches employed in each of the projects has assisted my own approach to, and rendering of, ConFest.
Appendices
Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
References: A-L
References: M-Z
Chapter One Contents
Thesis Contents