MUSIC : TOURISM AND TRAVEL : RECREATION : LEISURE STUDIES: Leisure and Recreation are Work for the Providers and Researchers
David P. Dillard
MUSIC :
TOURISM AND TRAVEL :
RECREATION :
LEISURE STUDIES:
Leisure and Recreation are Work for the Providers and Researchers
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This post was sent to a discussion group of professionals in the field of
music who found humor in the juxtaposition of the concept of hard work by
faculty from a faculty member in the field of leisure studies and
recreation. This message is aimed at showing that for practitioners in
fields involving leisure and recreation there is serious study and hard
work. Another member of that music related list noted humor in
politicians being involved with a discussion of hard work and faculty, the
event triggering this interest apparently involved Congressional testimony
at a hearing by a faculty member in the leisure studies field.
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I do have a sense of humor and I do tell jokes, so I can fully appreciate the
humor in the juxtaposition of faculty work with leisure studies, but in all
fairness, there is a great deal of hard work in leisure fields. Keep in mind
that music is a leisure activity for the audience, but the performers work very
hard. This is also true for professionals and staff in the fields of tourism,
recreation, leisure studies as an academic profession and fields like sports
psychology and sports management as well.
By the way, my third article within editions of this source on database
searching will appear in the ninth edition of the Directory of graduate
programs in applied sport psychology of which Temple University's Sport
Psychology professor Michael Sachs is one of the editors.
Regarding the serious side of these fields please consider these links to
Google searches:
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=
allintitle%3A+recreation&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=
allintitle%3A+leisure&btnG=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
There are links to my guides in tourism (completed) and under long term
construction for leisure studies, recreation, outdoor recreation and sports
management as well as hospitality. I am actively working on a second extensive
tourism guide that I will call and already have gotten the phrase into Google,
the Adjectival Tourism guide. For example there are medical tourism, health
tourism, wellness tourism, community based tourism, dark tourism, military
tourism and the list goes on and on and includes music tourism.
Scholar All articles - Recent articles Results 1 - 10 of about 199 for
"music tourism". (0.10 seconds)
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=
&q=allintitle%3A+leisure&btnG=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Indeed music and leisure studies do find common boundaries:
Scholar All articles - Recent articles Results 1 - 10 of about 2,040 for
"leisure studies" and music. (0.40 seconds)
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=
%22leisure+studies%22+and+music&btnG=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Now one area studied under tourism, hospitality and recreation, that of event
planning, has some humor attached to it. I once was asked to order quite a few
books on many aspects of event planning. Dinner concerts for example are
events. Now when you folks go to the dinner, do you not expect to find your
napkin folded properly? Well there is a literature on this, consider some
titles now held by Temple University Libraries:
The back of the napkin : solving problems and selling ideas with pictures
Roam, Dan.
New York : Portfolio, c2008.
Folding table napkins : a new look at a traditional craft
Dlugosch, Sharon.
St. Paul, MN : Brighton Publications, 1997.
Folding table napkins,
Kallem, Anne E.
New York, Sterling Pub. Co., 1972.
Guesstimation : solving the world's problems on the back of a cocktail napkin
Weinstein, Lawrence, 1960-
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Sterling silver holloware: tea and coffee services, pitchers and candelabra,
salts and peppers, desk sets and dressing sets, berry bowls, napkin rings,
cups, tea balls and bells, trays, flasks, match safes.
Rainwater, Dorothy T.
Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace-Homestead; [1973]
I do believe at hockey banquets that the napkin is allowed to show the crease.
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For any interested an index is in the bottom center of any page of my LibGuides
subject guides to my other guides and this is the link to my tourism guide that
is indexed by Intuit.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SUBJECT GUIDES:
TOURISM SUBJECT GUIDES:
General TOURISM Subject Guide
This Guide Leads to Sources Important for Research in Tourism
and the Interrelationship of Tourism with Other Broad Subject Fields
http://guides.temple.edu/tourism
Adjectival Tourism with so called omitted results included:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=% 22adjectival+tourism%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
I have also completed some combined webliographies and bibliographies regarding
Google searching tools that are in the series of posts and listed on all of my
subject guides main page that are in the series titled Meet the Googles that
may be of interest to some of you.
Meet the Googles
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22meet+the+
googles%22+and+%22net-gold%22&hl=en&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
or
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/msearch?query=%
22meet+the+googles%22&submit=Search&charset=windows-1252>
A shorter URL for the above link:
I certainly did get a chuckle from the juxtaposition of hard work in the same
breath as leisure studies and recreation, it is amusing, but I just wanted to
set the record straight. Leisure activities do not just happen, much hard work
goes into leisure activities like for example music concerts, including the
theory and skills behind the actual planning and execution of the event.
One additional thought, those working in management of orchestras or musical
events or concert series may find useful literature for the work you do from
the fields of recreation, tourism, hospitality, leisure studies and event
planning. Indeed the CAB database focused on agriculture, but with a very
important subfile of tourism and recreation literature has over 250 citations
with the word music in the title.
The Hospitality and Tourism Complete database has over 900 citations with the
word music in the title.
By the way, musicians tend to become very noted people because they really know
the score.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jw...@temple.edu
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