- Title
- Homage tourism - Ella Fitzgerald, war memorials, and all that jazz
- Creator
- Clark, Ian; Hollick, Mary
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/32678
- Identifier
- vital:1318
- Abstract
- ‘Homage tourism’ is able to include a range of forms of tourism such as visits to memorials, cemeteries, and places where special events took place. Homage tourism then is capable of being understood as a continuum from the sacred homage of religious pilgrimage embracing spiritual subjects at one end to secular or profane homage embracing the sacralization of cultural celebrities and critical events at the other. Secular homage often uses the language and behaviour of the sacred discourse and acts towards and refers to the subject or object of the homage in sacred-like ways - associated places become sacred sites, structures become shrines, actions become religious rites. This paper will explore two dimensions of secular homage, that of adulation or acclaim or tribute and remembrance. It will explore the former through focussing on jazz tourism and in particular the tourism of adulation that has emerged around jazz vocalist Ella Jane Fitzgerald, and the latter through an examination of visitation to the Australian Ex-Prisoner of War Memorial in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Though visitation to a war memorial or visitation to places associated with important people may appear disparate they both share the commonality that they are external actions with reverential intent, they are both examples of homage tourism.; E1
- Publisher
- Melbourne : Victoria University
- Relation
- Paper presented at CAUTHE 2006 conference - to the city and beyond, Melbourne : 6th February, 2006
- Rights
- Copyright Unknown
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Homage; Tourism; Pilgrimage; Adulation; War memorials; Sacralization; Ella Fitzgerald
- Reviewed
- Hits: 1943
- Visitors: 1964
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