Sudden and Peculiar Popularity in Music Festivals

"Music Festivals Rise In Popularity"

(http://www.cw.ua.edu/article/2014/03/music-festivals-rise-in-popularity)

"“I met people from all over the country, and we were all sitting there talking about how much we loved the band,” Garmon, a junior majoring in management, said. “I love how music unites everyone. Once we got in the pit, we couldn’t stop dancing, and I just remember that as being one of my best festival experiences.”

Garmon is not alone in her love for music festivals. Not only has worldwide music festival attendance skyrocketed in recent years, but according to Billboard.com, more new U.S. music festivals emerged in 2013 than any previous year.

Although music festivals have become more popular than ever before, their existence is nothing new. In fact, some historians consider the first music festival to be the musical contests during the Pythian Games of ancient Greece, which date all the way back to the sixth century B.C."

"Nothing new has been introduced, yet music festivals have been becoming more and more popular", Francie Johnson says. I agree with all this article has to say. I agree with how strange it is how this has happened. I also agree with his view on music festivals and why him and so many other people like them. "I love how music unites everyone, we couldn't stop dancing and I remember that being one of the best experiences". I have been to many music festivals and agree with how music is the thing that unites people as a whole and also how amazing these festivals can be. 

The article I read in blog post 2 agrees with this article as well. They both talk in favor of music festivals and describe the amazing things that come out of them. They both also understand that just because it is a recent popular thing doesn't mean they haven't been going on for a while, when in fact they have been going on for a long time. 

This one passage alone captures the intent of most of the article in these few paragraphs. The article reveals a bias for it mentions part of the great experience that he has had, so clearly he likes them. 

"“These festivals almost sell themselves to a certain extent,” Weisbard said. “I’m not convinced that people go to [music festivals] based exactly on who’s playing. I think it’s less about breaking the scene, making a certain kind of music mainstream, and it’s more about having this slightly underground but communal experience.”

I agree with this passage because a lot of the people attending these concerts don't know the music that's playing, but the genre of music and go for the experience. I also disagree because I, personally go to certain festivals for the music that I like. 

This passage connects to a video that I watched on the subject where a woman interviewed random people at the music festival "Bonaroo". She made up random band names such as the Freezing Monkeys and asked them if they were excited to see these fake bands and the people getting interviewed would go along with it and say how excited they are to see these made up bands. Both this article and that video prove that for a lot of people it is the experience and not the music. 

This passage captures the meaning of the entire article because this "experience" theory is why there is a recent spark in music festival goers. With pictures on social media of peoples amazing experience, other people want to go too. 

In the future I plan on interviewing my brother who is involved with the music business, and a company that sets up music festivals.