TY - JOUR AB - Purpose The purpose of this paper is the segmentation of the spectators attending a music festival in the city of Córdoba, Spain, according to their musical preferences.Design/methodology/approach In order to achieve this objective, the methodology used in the research consisted of the application of a group of multivariable techniques and in the realisation of a post hoc single-variate ANOVA analysis.Findings The principal conclusion resulting from this research is that there are different musical preferences with respect to the spectators at a music festival.Practical implications The main practical application of this research focusses on knowing the principal factors that determine musical preferences of the persons attending the festival.Originality/value The principal originality factor and innovation is analysing how the spectators of a music festival that has been held for many years attend with different motivations with respect to their musical preferences. VL - 8 IS - 3 SN - 1758-2954 DO - 10.1108/IJEFM-03-2017-0021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEFM-03-2017-0021 AU - Pérez-Gálvez Jesús Claudio AU - Lopez-Guzman Tomas AU - Gomez-Casero Gema AU - Fruet Cardozo Juan Vicente PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/01/01 TI - Segmentation of the spectators attending a festival based on musical preferences T2 - International Journal of Event and Festival Management PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 346 EP - 360 Y2 - 2024/09/19 ER -