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The Music Festival as Political Networking

Citizenship
Political Participation
Social Capital
Johannes Andersen
Aalborg Universitet
Johannes Andersen
Aalborg Universitet

Abstract

For the youth the music festivals are spaces for practical learning of the strength of networking, based on art, communication and contacting. Being part of the music gives the participants a possibility to be part of the place, the feeling and the art, with massive effects on their identity. They learn about the importance of communicating, and to be open for others communication. And this is the fundament of an important community in democracies, distributing social trust and community, in a field of a tendency of individualizing. This presentation aims to map out examples of the new political networks, forming a fundament for social trust in a society with weakening normative bounds.