Music Festival User Experience Design (MFUXD) Reading List

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience", New York: Harper & Row,1990.

Turino, Thomas, “Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation”, University Of Chicago Press, 2008.

Campbell, Richard Bret, "A Sense of place: Examining music-based tourism and its implications in destination venue placement". UNLV Theses/Dissertations/Professional Papers/Capstones. Paper 1142, 2011.

Maslow, A. H. (1962). Toward a psychology of being. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand.

Battarbee, Katja and Koskinen, Ilpo, "Co-experience: User Experience as Interaction". CoDesign, Vol.1, No.1, March 2005, 5-18.

Packer, Jan and Ballantyne, Julie. The Impact of Music Festival Attendance on Young People’s Psychological and Social Well-being. Psychology of Music, 39(2) 164–181, 2011.

Dispenza, Joseph, “The Way of the Traveler: Making Every Trip a Journey of Self-Discovery”, Avalon Travel Publishing, 2002. 

To do:

Allen, Johnny, “Festival and Special Event Management”, Wiley, 2008.  

Leach, D. (1962). Meaning and correlates of peak experience. Doctoral dissertation, University of Florida