Glastonbury is the latest festival to implement a ban on the sale of Native American headdresses.
The latest festival headwear trend finds itself on the frontlines of a much broader battle against "redface" stereotyping.
For the latest festival, the organizers scaled back again, moving the show from a biennial to a triennial, a decision driven by budget constraints.
All Tomorrow's Parties's latest festival has been thrown into confusion after the venue said it had been cancelled, reports Billboard.
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If "There's Something About Mary" offended you with its callous mockery of hair and pet care and its whimsical views of stalking and serial killing, then this latest festival of vulgarity from the Farrelly brothers will make you miserable.
The orchestra will serve as the centerpiece of Carnegie's latest festival, Vienna: City of Dreams, which will join past themes — among them Berlin, China, Japan, Leonard Bernstein and African-American culture — as subjects of scrutiny on West 57th Street and around the city.
Glastonbury recently became the latest festival to implement a ban on the sale of Native American headdresses, following an online petition which asserted that the garment "is an offensive and disrespectful form of cultural appropriation, that it homogenises diverse indigenous peoples, and that it perpetuates damaging, archaic and racist stereotypes".
Before the latest festival kicked off, Irving Plaza's owner, Andrew Rasiej, who has coproduced the festival since the beginning in 1995, was content to call it "one great, big beta-test".
