This book celebrates and builds on Alan Clarke (1956-2021) and Allan Jepsons 2015 book Exploring Community Festivals and Events. It showcases how far the study of community festivals and events has come in the intervening years....Loe edasi...
This book extends current knowledge and understanding of festival experiences. Relying on a series of international case studies, this book offers readers unique and important insights that emphasise the benefit of edutainment activities for enhance...Loe edasi...
Early modern European festivals were the catalyst for the creation of many temporary and occasionally permanent architectural feats both within courts and cities. Royal residences could be transformed into arenas for the performance of a wide variet...Loe edasi...
The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present Roskilde Festival. The purpose is to set up two comparable structures or codes to explain the universal artistic effects, structures...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199842780)
Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased in popularity in a cultural marketplace conjoining personal empowerment with beauty and style. Karen Tice examines the desires and r...Loe edasi...
Processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. This title analyses the process of cultural event development, management and marketing and links these p...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2009, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199215973)
An illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession which asks the questions: What was displayed? How was it paraded? What was the response? Ida Ostenberg analyses the stories the Roman triumph told about the defeated and the ideas it transmitted...Loe edasi...
Festivals were occasions to which Renaissance European courts devoted lavish resources. They marked all manner of state events and were charged with political, economic and cultural significance. The essays in this volume, by an international group...Loe edasi...
This text contains descriptions of the Japanese enthronement ceremonies. It covers the rituals, costumes, offerings, equipment, music, seating plans and buildings in which the ceremonies are held, giving their present function and past history. It e...Loe edasi...
A ground-breaking collection of essays that bring dance into the cultural studies mainstream, exploring the many ways we use our bodies as substantial, vital constituents of cultural reality....Loe edasi...
