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The Dawson City Music Festival has operated since 1979. This is noteworthy given the festival’s location of Dawson City, Yukon; a significant distance from the majority of Canada’s venues, festival sites, and music-related businesses. This chapter uses local press coverage about the DCMF as well as interviews with organizers and musicians to consider the significance and outcomes of a festival at the periphery of the music industries. This distance facilitates a community-minded approach to programming that eschews the sort of commercial logic that typically motivates music festival programming. The music and music-related activities programmed and supported by the DCMF encourages cultural and political transformations and conversations around diversity of music and community, particularly within the larger context of the contemporary live music sector.
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Fauteux, B. (2021). The Dawson City Music Festival and a Small-Town Scene at the Periphery of the Music Industries. In: Ballico, C. (eds) Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4581-5_5
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