서울시 거리 祝祭의 性格

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the Characteristics of Street Festival in Seoul City which is rapidly on the rise as a urban cultural phenomenon. For this purpose, the five factors- 'socio economic conditions of urban festival's showing up', 'participation agencies', 'time-space of festival', 'purpose of the festival', 'programs'-are established as analysis categories, and investigate 'the characteristics of street festival' synthetically by the comparison of five street festivals. The results of the study are summarized as follows. 1. Socio-economic conditions of street festival's showing up are as follows. ｉ)urban spatial restructuring of Seoul city and reorganization of commercial power, ii) selective spread of mass consumption culture, iii) a line of policy for securing local identity according to the times of local self-government, iv) change of street politics in accordance with the change of in-external political environment. 2. The characteristics of time-space of street festival in Seoul city are as follows. i) Time: street festival is concentrate on a specific times(spring & autumn), and it is a ephemeral event which is mainly held once a year. ii) Space: street festival is held in the consumption space as like as 'downtown(CBD)', 'secondary center', 'community center', especially consumption space in which the youth crowd. 3. Holding agencies of festival are composed of 'local merchants', 'local government', 'cultural capital', 'local society', and the constitution of agencies is differentiated with the festivals. But generally 'local merchants', 'local government Gu-office)', and 'cultural capital' are real holding agencies.