With establishment figures showing up at festivals, the idea of popular music as a form of psychic resistance to entrenched inequality becomes ever more distant
The attendance at this years Burning Man festival of libertarian Republican policy wonk Grover Norquist has caused some controversy over the past few weeks. There have also been grumbles about members of the Silicon Valley elite heading out to the Nevada desert and setting up their own VIP enclaves at the festival. Names include Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and a slew of khaki-wearing venture capitalists.
Similar charges of gentrification have been levelled at UK festivals for many years now, becoming a staple of British summers: for increasing numbers of the British ruling class, sampling the mud at Glastonbury has become another social engagement, along with strawberries and cream at Wimbledon and top hat and tails at Ascot.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 19 hours ago.
The attendance at this years Burning Man festival of libertarian Republican policy wonk Grover Norquist has caused some controversy over the past few weeks. There have also been grumbles about members of the Silicon Valley elite heading out to the Nevada desert and setting up their own VIP enclaves at the festival. Names include Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and a slew of khaki-wearing venture capitalists.
Similar charges of gentrification have been levelled at UK festivals for many years now, becoming a staple of British summers: for increasing numbers of the British ruling class, sampling the mud at Glastonbury has become another social engagement, along with strawberries and cream at Wimbledon and top hat and tails at Ascot.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 19 hours ago.