'Bongo fury': Tourism, music and cultural economy at Byron Bay, Australia

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 164-187

  Gibson, Chris ^a   Connell, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

'World music'; Aboriginality; Backpackers; Byron Bay; Cultural economy; Discourse; Exoticism; Tourism

Indexed keywords

LIFESTYLE; MUSIC; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AUSTRALIA; BYRON BAY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 0038547755     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9663.00247     Document Type: Article

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