Festivals are at the heart of British music and at the heart of the British music industry. They form an essential part of the worlds of rock, classical, folk and jazz, forming regularly …
… This paper investigates the phenomenon of festival culture through a case study of Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. It highlights how modern music festivals have …
… Glastonbury Abbey, described in sixteenth century verse as … Even after the Dissolution in 1539, proofs of Glastonbury's … history and Arthurian legend, Glastonbury is now hailed as a …
… The two places on which I focus, Glastonbury and Sedona, are among the most widely celebrated of sites believed to be sacred by followers of New Age and earth spirituality. As a …
… The material relating to pilgrimage in Glastonbury in this chapter has come from a variety of … in Glastonbury for, as we shall see, people not only travel purposefully to Glastonbury to …
… Somerset with a strikingly-shaped hill, Glastonbury Tor, it is, in fact, … Glastonbury and to St Bridget, both widely regarded as Christianised forms of the Goddess. For others, Glastonbury's …
… Glastonbury is therefore the fountain and headspring of Christianity in England, and indeed in the whole of the British Isles'.Glastonbury … delivered to the Glastonbury Antiquarian Society …
The essays in this volume, some reprinted in their original form and some extensively revised, are concerned with the Arthurian traditions associated with Glastonbury Abbey. Certain of …
… We describe a pilgrimage experience in Glastonbury, a place that has held sacred status in England through several religious periods over thousands of years and continues to draw …
… In Britain, Glastonbury is a place where the cosmic energies are … in Glastonbury, which is the New Age mecca in Britain. We consider that by deliberating on the New Age in Glastonbury …