Public Space, Community, and Enjoyment in Music Festival: The experiences of 2019 Jazz Traffic Festival audience in Surabaya
Downloads
This research focuses on the visitors' experience of the Jazz Traffic Festival (JTF) 2019 in Surabaya. This research then aims to know how the experience gained by the visitors in JTF with the genre expansion was incorporated despite its title as Jazz music Performances. This research uses case study method and descriptive-qualitative approach. The data in this research is obtained by observation and independent-interviews with four informants as visitors of JTF. The results of this study showed that each JTF visitors have a different experience due to the preference and purpose of attending the festival. JTF becomes a public space for visitors who are part of the urban community for several reasons. The visitors attend JTF for the entertainment, to escape from the routine, to build social interactions, and to actualize self-identity. in addition, the innovative effort of JTF in maintaining its existence by expanding to non-jazz music and market was apparently still enjoyed by the visitors.
Copyright (c) 2021 Karyasih Marga
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
