Chapter 8. ‘Our Spirit Rises from the Ashes’: Mapoon Festival and History’s Shadow

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Contributors xi
5. Preface xv
6. Part 1. Exploring Rural Festivals
7. Chapter 1. The Extent and Significance of Rural Festivals 3
8. Chapter 2. Histories of Agricultural Shows and Rural Festivals in Australia 25
9. Chapter 3. Rural Festivals and Processes of Belonging 44
10. Part 2. Nuts and Bolts: Making Festivals Happen
11. Chapter 4. Local Leadership and Rural Renewal through Festival Fun: The Case of Snow Fest 61
12. Chapter 5. Economic Benefits of Rural Festivals and Questions of Geographical Scale: The Rusty Gromfest Surf Carnival 74
13. Chapter 6. Greening Rural Festivals: Ecology, Sustainability and Human–Nature Relations 92
14. Part 3. Politics and Place: Culture, Nature and Colonialism
15. Chapter 7. Performing Culture as Political Strategy: The Garma Festival, Northeast Arnhem Land 109
16. Chapter 8. ‘Our Spirit Rises from the Ashes’: Mapoon Festival and History’s Shadow 123
17. Chapter 9. Birthday Parties and Flower Shows, Musters and Multiculturalism: Festivals in Post-War Gympie 136
18. Chapter 10. On Display: Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show and the Assembly of Place 155
19. Part 4. Reinventing Rurality
20. Chapter 11. Elvis in the Country: Transforming Place in Rural Australia 175
21. Chapter 12. Marketing a Sustainable Rural Utopia: The Evolution of a Community Festival 194
22. Chapter 13. Chill Out: A Festival ‘Out’ in the Country 209
23. Part 5. Festival People
24. Chapter 14. Bring in Your Washing: Family Circuses, Festivity and Rural Australia 229
25. Chapter 15. Culturing Commitment: Serious Leisure and the Folk Festival Experience 248
26. Chapter 16. Tartans, Kilts and Bagpipes: Cultural Identity and Community Creation at the Bundanoon is Brigadoon Scottish Festival 265
27. Chapter 17. What is Wangaratta to Jazz? The (Re)creation of Place, Music and Community at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival 280
28. Index 294