A draft conceptual model for a music festival - as experienced by an audience member

A music festival acts as a crucial space of displacement from the everyday, where many brains and bodies come together to attempt to sync through a shared, larger experience. The primary syncing agent is music, and the secondary syncing agent is the venue. Music provides a common thread to unite people and different social groups within the space of the music festival.

My model is the following: a music festival, as experienced by an audience member, is fundamentally about physical and social displacement followed by alignment (or re-alignment). This displacement affords a new space for learning both about the self, one's social network, other people, and of course, about music and the event itself. 

This model illustrates my theory that that the novel foreignness of the music festival environment  provides individuals with a a crucial space for growth and reflection - and can be an agent for positive personal change and increased music appreciation and understanding.