Exploring Tongyeong international music festival in South Korea as a globalizing cultural festival

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104371

Dowon Hwang , Yong-Sook Lee

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Abstract

This study investigates how Tongyeong, a declining small city in South Korea, has successfully hosted an international cultural festival and achieved cultural and economic revitalization. Focusing on the Tongyeong International Music Festival (TIMF), the research highlights the pivotal role of multi-scalar gatekeepers in shaping the festival’s growth and integrating it into both global cultural networks and local development efforts. Conceptualizing TIMF as an emergent temporary cultural cluster, the study examines how these gatekeepers strategically balance buzz and pipeline dynamics—a balance often underexplored in the context of globalizing cultural events. Based on in-depth interviews, archival documents, field observations, and secondary materials, the analysis show that gatekeepers build pipelines through external collaborations, trans-local institutional building, and international and national sponsorships, and, while simultaneously activating local buzz via media outreach, government partnerships, music events, and community engagement. Their scalar position and curatorial role enable them to connect actors across multiple geographical scales.

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探索韩国统营国际音乐节作为一个全球化的文化节日

本研究探讨了统营这个没落的小城市如何成功举办国际文化节，实现文化和经济的振兴。该研究以统营国际音乐节（TIMF）为重点，强调了多尺度守门人在塑造音乐节发展并将其融入全球文化网络和地方发展努力方面的关键作用。该研究将TIMF定义为一个新兴的临时文化集群，研究了这些看门人如何在战略上平衡嗡嗡声和管道动态——在全球化文化事件的背景下，这种平衡往往没有得到充分的探索。基于深度访谈、档案文件、实地观察和二手材料，分析表明，看门人通过外部合作、跨地方机构建设、国际和国家赞助建立渠道，同时通过媒体宣传、政府合作、音乐活动和社区参与激活当地舆论。他们的标量位置和策展角色使他们能够连接多个地理尺度的参与者。

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Geoforum GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

5.70%

发文量

201

期刊介绍： Geoforum is an international, inter-disciplinary journal, global in outlook, and integrative in approach. The broad focus of Geoforum is the organisation of economic, political, social and environmental systems through space and over time. Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy and environment, through national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, local economic and urban planning and resources management. The journal also includes a Critical Review section which features critical assessments of research in all the above areas.