Introducing Power, Meaning and Authenticity

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Allan Jepson, and Alan Clarke, eds., Power, Construction, and Meaning in Festivals, on November 2017, available online at: https://www.routledge.com/Power-Construction-and-Meaning-in-Festivals/Jepson-Clarke/p/book/9781138063228. Under embargo until 10 May 2019.Our book contains contributions from 20 researchers, all of which are intrigued by the prospect of what events can achieve positively for their stakeholders’, and the ways in which power, meaning and authenticity are central concepts to achieving potential positive outcomes in the creation of events.Final Accepted Versio