Festivalboom eller kulturpolitisk ønskedrøm? - Om festivalisering og kommunal kulturøkonomi

Abstract

This paper focuses upon «festivalisation» of culture in Norway. Both available research and cultural policy documents claim that it has been a spectacular increase of people’s participation at festivals during the last years. Researchers and cultural policy experts have interpreted this alleged “festival boom” as an expression of a profound structural transformation of people’s cultural activity patterns, i. e., from “institutions to events” (Henningsen et. al. 2015, NOU 2013:4). They have also asserted that such festivalisation, in particular, has taken place at the local level, and that municipalities have spent an increasing proportion of their cultural budgets on local festivals. We have studied these two questions using available statistical data from several sources. Our two main conclusions are: 1) Researchers and cultural policy experts have both overestimated the “festivalisation boom”, and 2) the assertion of increased municipal spending on festivals is misleading. Keywords Festivalisation events municipal cultural economy local cultural policy

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