Music festivals: Time to recap

Abstract

This has been the fi rst summer without festivals. For some it has been an economic debacle. For others, a dry season in their live music consumption habits. The few festivals that have managed to be held are precisely those that had a reasonable size and could be readjusted to the new measures. It is a clue that forces us to think if those events of superhuman dimensions make any sense. It is time to consider the pros and cons of this big events and, perhaps, propose models of musical consumption where festival gradually lose the excessive prominence they have obtained in recent decades.