Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1 Exploring Rural Festivals -- Chapter 1 The Extent and Significance of Rural Festivals -- Chapter 2 Histories of Agricultural Shows and Rural Festivals in Australia -- Chapter 3 Rural Festivals and Processes of Belonging -- Part 2 Nuts and Bolts: Making Festivals Happen -- Chapter 4 Local Leadership and Rural Renewal through Festival Fun: The Case of SnowFest -- Chapter 5 Economic Benefits of Rural Festivalsand Questions of Geographical Scale: The Rusty Gromfest Surf Carnival -- Chapter 6 Greening Rural Festivals: Ecology, Sustainability and Human-Nature Relations -- Part 3 Politics and Place: Culture, Nature and Colonialism -- Chapter 7 Performing Culture as Political Strategy: The Garma Festival, Northeast Arnhem Land -- Chapter 8 'Our Spirit Rises from the Ashes': Mapoon Festival and History's Shadow -- Chapter 9 Birthday Parties and Flower Shows, Musters and Multiculturalism: Festivals in Post-War Gympie -- Chapter 10 On Display: Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show and the Assembly of Place -- Part 4 Reinventing Rurality -- Chapter 11 Elvis in the Country: Transforming Place in Rural Australia -- Chapter 12 Marketing a Sustainable Rural Utopia: The Evolution of a Community Festival -- Chapter 13 ChillOut: A Festival 'Out' in the Country -- Part 5 Festival People -- Chapter 14 Bring in Your Washing: Family Circuses, Festivity and Rural Australia -- Chapter 15 Culturing Commitment: Serious Leisure and the Folk Festival Experience -- Chapter 16 Tartans, Kilts and Bagpipes: Cultural Identity and Community Creationat the Bundanoon is Brigadoon Scottish Festival -- Chapter 17 What is Wangaratta to Jazz? The (Re)creation of Place, Music and Community at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival -- Index.