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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Burning Man Art on Fire
Book SynopsisRevel in the power of human creativity with this completely revised and expanded edition of Burning Man: Art on Fire, illustrated with over 250 gorgeous color photos. *Winner of the 2023 Gold Foreword INDIE Book Award*For one week a year, a remote desert lakebed in Nevada becomes Black Rock City, the home of Burning Man, where 80,000 participants create a temporary community devoted to expression and play. There is no money, no running water—and there are no constraints. Artists bring enormous sculptures for participants to climb. Outrageous Mutant Vehicles glide through an opulent mirage. This is a dreamscape of permission. For seven days and nights, the artistic movement of our time materializes—and then disappears without a trace. Welcome to Burning Man. Welcome Home. This authorized collection also includes: Over 150 new photographs and descriptions of individual pieces ofTrade Review"A brilliantly visual and impressively informative homage to an annual ephemeral event is unreservedly recommended to the attention of Burners, artists, creative thinkers, and anyone who has ever imagined a visit to Burning Man -- one of the most extraordinary places on earth." * Midwest Book Review *"Fascinating, joyful, and awe-inspiring. Raiser’s text provides insight into the planning and detail that go into maintaining Burning Man’s integrity and safety while celebrating its spirit of creativity and participation." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction: Art on Fire: Seven Days Ablaze Ten Principles of Burning Man Art to Amaze Mutant Craze Everyone Plays Silicon Rays Art to Praise Art Ablaze Epilogue: Art on Fire An Artist’s Perspective: Disorient in the Desert AFTERWORD: #ThanksLarry About the Authors About the Contributors Acknowledgments Index Photography Credits
£25.60
Hawthorn Press All Year Round: A Calendar of Celebrations
Book SynopsisAll Year Round is brimming with things to make, activities, stories, poems and songs to share with your family. It is full of well-illustrated ideas for fun and celebration: from Candlemas to Christmas and Midsummer''s day to the Winter solstice.Observing the round of festivals is an enjoyable way to bring rhythm into children''s lives and provide a series of meaningful landmarks to look forward to. Each festival has a special character of its own: participation can deepen our understanding and love of nature and bring a gift to the whole family. All Year Round invites you to start celebrating now!
£15.29
University of Nebraska Press HoChunk Powwows and the Politics of Tradition
Book SynopsisHo-Chunk powwows are the oldest powwows in the Midwest and among the oldest in the US, beginning in 1902 outside Black River Falls in west-central Wisconsin. Grant Arndt examines Wisconsin Ho-Chunk powwow traditions and the meanings of cultural performances and rituals in the wake of North American settler colonialism.Trade Review"Arndt's depth of knowledge of the topic and excellent scholarship shine in this book. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in Native American culture and traditions."—Julie Goodrich, Iowa History Journal"Ho-Chunk Powwows and the Politics of Tradition is a creatively conceptualized, well-written, and meticulously researched volume that extends our understanding of the Ho-Chunk experience in the twentieth century and the history of cultural performance."—Amy Lonetree, Public Historian"I recommend this book, especially to students of the powwow, as there is little knowledge to be found dedicated to the Ho-Chunk powwow tradition."—Louis Garcia, Tribal College Journal"A nuanced examination of the power of performance among the Ho-Chunk."—Katrina Phillips, Native American and Indigenous Studies“A fine work and a welcome addition to the literature. Arndt elaborates nuanced meanings of Ho-Chunk powwows in historical and cultural context, and just as important, he does much to uncover the more complex workings and dynamics of powwows today.”—Luke Eric Lassiter, author of The Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography“In this important new work, Grant Arndt reminds us that the powwow is more than dancing. It is a gathering with deep connections to widely shared values and practices that affirm the continuing vitality of Ho-Chunk identity and culture.”—Clyde Ellis, author of A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Into the Arena1. When Worlds Collide: Culture and Catastrophe in the Nineteenth Century2. Gifts and Profits: On the Origins of the Powwow3. "Time Works Changes, Even to the People of the Red Races": The Rise and Fall of the Commercial Powwow4. Something More than Patriotism: War, Veterans, and the Return of the Powwow5. Calling the People Together: Powwows in the Era of Nation-Rebuilding6. Producing a Space for Culture: Powwows in the Early Twenty-First CenturyConclusion: Experimenting with the Expectations of TraditionNotesReferencesIndex
£45.00
Quarto Publishing PLC Festivals A Music Lovers Guide to the Festivals
Book SynopsisFestivals is a must-have guide to the world’s best and most memorable music festivals – a list of all those you need to know and those you should experience. Discover the compelling stories behind the most significant and exciting events around the world which shape music and festival culture. This inspirational global guide showcases 50 bucket list festivals with photographs, posters, facts and figures, and draws attention to hundreds more to explore. Highlighting festival giants and jazz classics, pop powerhouses and indie favourites to dance scene darlings and punk rock adventures, we travel from Woodstock, Glastonbury, Coachella and Roskilde to Fuji Rock, Tomorrowland, Burning Man and Afro Punk. Here, the unique experience of a music festival is evocatively captured and an overview of the rise of the wonderful world of festival culture asTable of ContentsIntroduction Montreux Jazz Festival Isle of Wight Festival Woodstock Glastonbury Roskilde Reading Festival North Sea Jazz Festival WOMAD Rock am Ring Rock in Rio Burning Man Love Parade Lollapalooza Electric Daisy Carnival KaZantip Big Day Out Sziget Sonar Fuji Rock Lillith Fair Melt Tuska Creamfields Iceland Airwaves Coachella Splendour in the Grass Primavera Sound AfrikaBurn Lovebox Nuits Sonores Bang Face Weekender Rock en Seine Download Secret Garden Party Bestival Flow Festival Lake of Stars Afropunk Tomorrowland Way Out West Kappa FuturFestival Strawberry Fields Dimensions Dekmantel Nyege Nyege The Crave Magnetic Fields Secret Solstice Oasis Festival Mighty Hoopla Mad Cool Index Index of festivals by country Index of festivals by month Index of festivals by musical genre Acknowledgements Picture credits
£15.19
Orion Publishing Co Glastonbury 50
Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES: ''Captivating''A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR: ''In-depth and inspiring''''Beautifully compiled ... the perfect festival experience'' SUNDAY TIMESGlastonbury 50 is the authorised, behind-the-scenes, inside story of the music festival that has become a true global phenomenon. The story begins in 1970. The day after Jimi Hendrix''s death... dairy farmer Michael Eavis invites revellers to his field in Somerset to attend a ''Pop, Folk & Blues'' festival. Tickets are 1 each, enticing more than a thousand customers with the promise of music, dance, poetry, theatre, lights and spontaneous entertainment - as well as free milk from his own Worthy Farm cows.Fast forward through five tumultuous decades and the Eavis''s vision now encompasses a gigantic ''city in the fields'', with a total annual population nearing a quarter of a milTrade ReviewA must-have for festival fans. * Woman & Home *With exclusive interviews, never-before-seen photos and lots of insight from big names, including Adele, Dolly Parton and Noel Gallagher, this is a must for any music fan. * Woman *In this beautifully compiled history, Eavis and his daughter Emily trace Glastonbury's remarkable 50-year evolution, alongside testimony from performers and a fabulous trove of photographs. Blessedly mud-free, it's the perfect festival experience. * The Sunday Times (Culture) *... Emily Eavis's childhood recollections, and photographs documenting how it went from a mellow hippy love-in with free milk in 2971 to a crusty nightmare in the early Nineties to a fully functioning pop-up city it is today, are captivating. * The Times (Saturday Review) *Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily prove typically welcoming guides as Glastonbury 50 unravels the history, the book's scrapbook approach mixing personal stories and classic photography with colourful reminiscences from the likes of Chris Martin, Ed Chemical, Noel Gallagher and Banksy. * Q Magazine *
£27.00
Luath Press Ltd Edinburgh's festivals: A Biography
Book SynopsisFollowing the publication of The Edinburgh Festival, Doing the Festival, by arts and culture writer David Pollock, is a deep dive into the history of the festivals and how they shaped modern Edinburgh, with a behind-the-scenes look at the events and their impact on the arts.Produced through extensive research, with participation from those involved with shaping the festivals of past and present, Doing the Festivalexplores the history of the city’s festival season.Featuring the International Festival, the Festival Fringe, the Book and Film Festivals, and more, it looks at the role these have played in the careers of stars and artists, as well as the city’s venues, attractions and evolution.Doing the Festival will appeal to anyone with an interest in Edinburgh’s festival culture. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the modern history of Edinburgh or the world of the arts, given the central role the festivals hold in the culture of both.Trade ReviewA clear, fascinating and hugely entertaining read, filled with detail and personal, anecdotal references. I encourage anyone interested in festivals, the arts, Edinburgh or Scotland to read this. NICOLA BENEDETTIDavid Pollock’s book charts the evolution of key events and venues, recounts the biggest controversies on and off-stage, and recalls the most memorable scandals to make the press. BRIAN FERGUSSON, The ScotsmanUntil David Pollock, nobody had written about Edinburgh’s festivals with such breadth and contextual understanding. Accessible and fascinating, his book not only gives a compellingly researched account of the world’s biggest event of its kind, but also roots it in the cultural life of Scotland and the rest of the UK. It is a major achievement. MARK FISHER, The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide and The Guardian
£13.49
Canelo A Fresh Start at Polkerran Point
Book SynopsisThey''ve both been burned by love before, but will they take a second chance?A year on from the demise of an unhappy marriage, Kate Stretton grabs the opportunity to move to the other end of the country and start afresh in Cornwall with her teenage daughter, Mollie. Unused to such a slower pace of life, Kate leaps at the chance to take on Polkerran Point's ailing annual arts and music festival.Soon, though, she locks horns with local Rick Devonshire, the main sponsor for the festival. Rick's marriage has fallen apart in spectacular fashion, and the last thing he needs is Kate pushing to go against the festival's traditions.Nursing their wounds from past relationships, can Kate and Rick find a way to work in harmony? And when Rick's soon-to-be ex-wife comes back on the scene wanting a second chance, what will he do?A sweet and emotional romance for fans of Trisha Ashley, Jo Bartlett and Phillipa Ashley.
£8.54
Penguin Books Ltd The English Year
Book SynopsisTakes readers month-by-month, day-by-day, through the festivities of English life. This book explains how the festivities originated, what they mean and when they occur.
£15.29
The University of Chicago Press Enabling Creative Chaos
Book SynopsisFounded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival event Burning Man at Nevada's Black Rock Desert presents challenges to its organizers. This title tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers.
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Enabling Creative Chaos
Book SynopsisFounded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival event Burning Man at Nevada's Black Rock Desert presents challenges to its organizers. This title tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers.
£26.60
Yale University Press Carnival and Culture
Trade ReviewSelected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine“Gilmore’s superb study achieves universal relevance precisely through its particularity—a goal often sought after but seldom achieved by anthropologists.”—Timothy Mitchell, author of Flamenco Deep Song
£29.28
The University of Michigan Press Blues in Black and White
Book SynopsisIn 1969 and 1970, the first Ann Arbor Blues Festivals brought together the greatest-ever selection of blues performers - an enormous blues party that seemed to feature every big name in the world of blues. Featuring thousands of photographs from these festivals, this title captures these legendary performances onstage and the goings-on backstage.
£22.46
University of California Press Americas Favorite Holidays
Book SynopsisWas Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween? This book reveals answers to questions about each holiday's traditions.Trade Review"This slender book, which is adorned with whimsical drawings of Cupid and Santa Claus, is deceptively thought-provoking. Bruce David Forbes, a professor of religious studies, writes in a style that is more confessional than that of the typical academic... He excels in providing entertaining tidbits... The book is presented as light and entertaining, and Forbes readily delivers on this promise." -- Jennifer Jensen Wallach TLS "After you read all five chapters of 'America's Favorite Holidays' you will not only be more reflective, you will be poised to win the trivia contest at all of your holiday parties this year and beyond." -- Hilary Levey Friedman Providence Journal "This new book by Forbes discusses the particulars of our now widely accepted cultural practices surrounding Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. The nature of folk and cultural traditions is such that we often assume that present-day customs have always been the norm. Forbes presents a genial and ably written corrective to that tendency... This accessible work deserves a wide readership." -- Graham Christian Library Journal "This is a delightful book, full of history presented with a gracious and light touch-in other words, a perfect holiday present... Highly recommended." CHOICE connect "America's Favorite Holidays is an immensely readable book that provides a very engaging history of five widely-celebrated holidays in the United States." -- Samira K. Mehta Reading ReligionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Christmas 2. Valentine's Day 3. Easter 4. Halloween 5. Thanksgiving Afterword Notes Index
£18.90
University of California Press Venice Incognito
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Refreshingly well-written and thought-provoking." Art Newspaper "Comprehensively researched, insightful reconsideration of the function of masks and masking... Highly recommended." Choice "Perceptive, gracefully written, and well-illustrated... A vivid introduction to Venetian culture." -- Peter Burke Emmanuel College, Cambridge University Journal Of Modern History
£25.50
University of California Press Summer of Love Art Fashion and Rock and Roll
Book SynopsisFeaturing a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this title celebrates San Francisco's rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the 1967 Summer of Love.Trade Review"Summer of Love: Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll does a remarkable job conveying both the ideas and the content of an exhibition many of us will never see. Its precision focus on one moment in one city in American history is the book’s greatest strength." * PopMatters *"The beautifully illustrated and very readable work provides the social, cultural, and political background that laid the era’s foundation." * Library Journal *Table of Contentsforeword map essays not past at all dennis mcnally selling san francisco’s sound colleen terry stitching a new paradigm jill d ’alessandro if you’re going to san francisco joel selvin catalogue and more (sittin’ on) the dock of the bay a trip without a ticket the gathering of the tribes love and haight the poster shop feed your head the music never stopped what are we fighting for? san francisco psychedelic rock posters victoria binder the sixties in san francisco van meter time line selected bibliography checklist index acknowledgments picture credits contributors
£46.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd Siamese State Ceremonies Their History and
Book SynopsisTo students of Indian Culture interested in tracing the influence of India in the institutions of her Cultural Colonies, as also to Anthropologists, the Religious Festivals and Court Ceremonies, which still remain the most characteristic features of Siamese social life, offer an important field for research. Yet the subject has been little touched by scholars. Therefore a pioneer work of this nature can only be regarded as an attempt to lay a foundation for further studies, and the author hopes that other studentsâparticularly those Siamese possessed of an extensive knowledge of their own literature and customsâmay be encouraged to endeavour to fill those gaps which remain in our knowledge of most of the Siamese State Ceremonies. First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsPART I. INTRODUCTORY, PART II. THE CHIEF FACTORS IN SIAMESE STATE CEREMONIAL, PART I I I . CEREMONIES OF INSTALLATION, PART IV. CEREMONIES CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH KINGSHIP, PART V. CEREMONIES RELATING TO AGRICULTURE, PART VI. MISCELLANEOUS STATE CEREMONIES, General Conclusions.
£128.25
Scholastic Wheres the Golden Egg
Book SynopsisHelp the Great Easter Bunny get her chocolate power back!An egg-cellent search-and-find book with over 680 thingsto spot.
£9.09
Manchester University Press Pageantry and Power
Book SynopsisPageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare's time and beyond. -- .Trade Review[Tracey] Hill is fast establishing herself as one of the most respected authorities on the Lord Mayor’s pageant’ and Pageantry and Power is ‘heavyweight, seriously researched book [that] … makes a considerable contribution to advancing knowledge in this areaHill’s Pageantry and Power is an impressive achievement, presenting an authoritative argument in accessible and largely jargon-free language. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of figures1. ‘From low-obscure Beginnings raysde to Fame’: critical and historicalcontexts of the Lord Mayor’s Show2. ‘Our devices for that solemne and Iouiall daye’: the writers, artificers, and the livery companies3. ‘A day of well Compos’d Variety of Speach and shew’: bringing the Shows tolife4. ‘A briefe narration of each seuerall shew’: the Show from street to print5. ‘To prune and dresse the Tree of Gouernment’: political and contemporarycontexts of the ShowsAppendix: the Lord Mayor’s Shows, 1585 - 1639: summaryBibliographyIndex
£76.50
Manchester University Press Pageantry and Power
Book SynopsisPageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare's time and beyond. -- .Trade ReviewPageantry and Power succeeds admirably in rescuing the early modern Lord Mayor’s show from scholarly obscurity. The book also—and it is this which will probably appeal to the greatest number of readers—fleshes out our knowledge of the careers of a number of writers associated with these shows, including Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Anthony Munday, Thomas Heywood, John Taylor, and John Webster.'Elizabeth Goldring , Journal of British Studies, 01/07/2012'[Tracey] Hill is fast establishing herself as one of the most respected authorities on the Lord Mayor’s pageant’ and Pageantry and Power is ‘heavyweight, seriously researched book [that] … makes a considerable contribution to advancing knowledge in this area'The London Review, 01/06/2012Hill’s Pageantry and Power is an impressive achievement, presenting an authoritative argument in accessible and largely jargon-free language. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of figures1. ‘From low-obscure Beginnings raysde to Fame’: critical and historicalcontexts of the Lord Mayor’s Show2. ‘Our devices for that solemne and Iouiall daye’: the writers, artificers, and the livery companies3. ‘A day of well Compos’d Variety of Speach and shew’: bringing the Shows tolife4. ‘A briefe narration of each seuerall shew’: the Show from street to print5. ‘To prune and dresse the Tree of Gouernment’: political and contemporarycontexts of the ShowsAppendix: the Lord Mayor’s Shows, 1585 - 1639: summaryBibliographyIndex
£23.75
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Festivals
Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival. It has also been the site of numerous 'culture wars' since it began in 1947. This book explores the 'culture wars' of 1945-1970 and is the first major study of the origins and development of this leading annual arts extravaganza.
£22.79
The History Press Ltd The Great British Woodstock
Book SynopsisThe Great British Woodstock: The Incredible Story of the Weeley Festival 1971
£18.00
McFarland & Company Snake Oil Hustlers and Hambones The American
Book SynopsisThis study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys 19th century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored.
£20.89
McFarland & Company Music of the Fourth of July A Yearbyyear
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive study of the music of the Fourth of July. This book offers information on notable Independence Day compositions and performances which is presented chronologically from 1777 through 2008. It demonstrates the significance of music in Fourth of July celebrations.
£48.59
Louisiana State University Press Mardi Gras Indians
Book SynopsisExplores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions celebrating African culture, Indigenous peoples, and Black Americans.
£17.06
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico AfterBurn Reflections on Burning Man
Book SynopsisThe Burning Man Festival is a weeklong spasm of radical self-expression held annually just before Labour Day since 1986. In late August 2003, more than 33,000 participants converged in Nevada's Black Rock Desert for this counterculture event staged as an experiment in temporary community. Both Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen have attended Burning Man annually since 1996.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Beyond Belief: The Cults of Burning Man; Fires of the Heart: Ritual, Pilgrimage and Transformation at Burning Man; Participant Observation and the Study of Self: Burning Man as Ethnographic Experience; Welcome to the Black Rock Cafe; Incendiary Incentives: How the Burning Man Organisation Motivates and Manages Volunteers' Kaleidoscopic Cortege: Art Cars at Burning Man and Beyond; Utopia, Social Sculpture and Burning Man; A Tale of Two Surrealities; No Novenas for the Dead: Ritual Action and Communal Memory at the Temple of Tears; Index.
£15.26
Rowman & Littlefield AViva MZxico AViva la Independencia
Book SynopsisViva México! Viva la Independencia! Celebrations of September 16 examines the Independence holiday, exploring how this most important public festival in the civic calendar has given Mexicans a rich tradition of national celebration that is part creation myth, part official pomp, and part popular merrymaking. The editors examine how Independence Day festivities have provided a medium for informal education, sketching on the canvas of the public sphere national values, glorifying specific historical events and individuals, and celebrating government plans and achievements. Since 1823, this festival has served as an essential contribution to the conversion of Mexicans to common ideals, as people across the country express their national identity with the cry, ''Viva México! Viva la Independencia!''Trade ReviewThis exceptional collection of essays brings the rites of Independence and Revolution to life by giving the actions of the original participants new meaning in the social and political contexts of their times. -- John Mason Hart, University of HoustonThe focused nature of this volume is its strength, taking a single event and showing different historical aspects of it from independence through the modern era. * Latin American Research Review *Anyone who has experience the eve of September 16 in Mexico, felt the crush of bodies in the Zòcalo, seen the magnificent fireworks, and heard the official cries of '¡Viva!'—as well as the obscene popular replies—instinctively knows the deep significance of Independence for the Mexican mentality. Finally, a book that reveals the political struggles behind the civic holiday that shaped Mexico's national identity. This is an important work of cultural history, as vibrant and complex as the celebration it examines. -- Jeffrey Pilcher, The CitadelHistorians are gradually filling in the gaps in our knowledge about nineteenth-century Mexico. The essays in ¡Viva México! ¡Viva la Independencia! help us understand the links between popular culture, political symbolism and mythmaking, and state-building during this tumultuous century. -- Mark Wasserman, Rutgers UniversityThis book is a welcome addition to the study of public commemorations in Latin America. * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, (Jilas) *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Functions of Patriotic Ceremony in Mexico Chapter 2 Images of Independence in the Nineteenth Century: The Grito de Dolores, History and Myth Chapter 3 The Junta Patriótica and the Celebration of Independence in Mexico City, 1825–1855 Chapter 4 The First Independence Celebrations in San Luis Potosí, 1824–1847 Chapter 5 San Angel as the Site of National Festivals in the 1860s Chapter 6 Conservatives Contest the Meaning of Independence, 1846–1855 Chapter 7 New Celebrations of Independence: Puebla (1869) and Mexico City (1883) Chapter 8 The Capital Commemorates Independence at the Turn of the Century Chapter 9 1910 Mexico City: Space and Nation in the City of the Centenario Chapter 10 The 1921 Centennial Celebration of Mexico's Independence: State Building and Popular Negotiation Chapter 11 Postrevolutionary Contexts for Independence Day: The "Problem" of Order and the Invention of Revolution Day, 1920s–1940s Chapter 12 Suggested Readings Chapter 13 About the Editors and Contributors Chapter 14 Index
£36.00
The Merlin Press Ltd Misbehaving Stories of protest against the Miss
Book SynopsisMisbehaving gives us the story of the protesters against Miss World Contest in the words of the rebels themselves. Through the wonderful diversity of their personal and political life stories it does something more. By chronicling the influences that led them to take action, it vividly revealsTrade ReviewIt was the first thing that really turned me on to feminism, so moving and exciting, and of course, I never looked back. - Lynne Segal // Misbehaving gives us the story of the protesters against Miss World Contest in the words of the rebels themselves. Through the wonderful diversity of their personal and political life stories it does something more. .. it vividly reveals how an extraordinary range of sources contributed to the emergence of a movement for Women's Liberation. It will cheer you all up. - Sheila Rowbotham
£15.19
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. The Best Ever
Book SynopsisExplores the traditions of Parades and their role in American culture.
£22.00
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. The Best Ever
Book SynopsisParades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition.
£30.40
Cambridge University Press Performance Memory and Processions in Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisThe pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an image of Rome as the senate and the people with their gods - a deeply traditional symbol of the city which was transformed during the empire when an imperial image was built on top of the republican one. In late antiquity, the procession fashioned a multiplicity of Romes: imperial, traditional, and Christian. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the webs of symbolic meanings in the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity.Table of ContentsDedication; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction: 1. History in the subjunctive; 2. Idioms of spectacle between Hellenism and Imperialism; 3. Ritual rhythms of the pompa circensis; Part I. An Ideal-type between the Republic and Memories of the Republic: 1. Pompa hominum: gravity and levity, resonance and wonder, ritual failure; 1.1 'Rituals in ink': Dionysius of Halicarnassus; 1.2 Gravity, levity, and ritual resonance in the pompa hominum; 1.2.1 'Those holding the greatest authority'; 1.2.2 '[Roman] sons on the verge of manhood'; 1.2.3 'The charioteers followed'; 1.2.4 'Numerous companies of dancers'; 1.2.5 'Bands of dancers playing satyrs'; 1.2.6 'Censers in which incense and frankincense were burned'; 1.3 Wonder: spectacle and the pompa circensis; 1.4 Ritual failure in the pompa hominum; 2. Pompa deorum: performing theology, performing the gods; 2.1 Religious education and performed 'theology'; 2.2 Performing the gods; 2.2.1 Fercula and simulacra; 2.2.2 Exuviae and tensae; 2.2.3 Folkloric figures; 2.3 Regulations, risks, and ritual failure in the pompa deorum; 3. Iter pompae circensis: memory, resonance, the image of the city; 3.1 An itinerary of collective memory; 3.2 Resonance and repetition; 3.2.1 Capitolium: 'the citadel and Capitolium, the seat of the gods, the senate, and the head of public judgment'; 3.3.2 Forum Romanum: 'wider intercolumniations should be distributed around the spectacles… and in balconies should be placed in the upper stories'; 3.2.3 Velabrum: 'the vile throng of the vicus Tuscus'; 3.2.4 Aedes Cereris; 3.2.5 Circus Maximus: 'they come to see, they come that they may be seen'; 3.3 Imaging Rome on the ground and in the imagination; 3.3.1 Way-finding in Republican Rome; 3.3.2 Symbolic cityscapes: Senatus populusque Romanus et dei and Aurea Roma; 3.4 An ideal-type between the Republic and memories of the Republic; Part II. The Pompa Circensis from Julius Caesar to Late Antiquity: 4. 'Honors greater than human': Imperial cult and the pompa circensis; 4.1 Imperial gods in the pompa circensis: from Caesar to the Severans; 4.1.1 Dynastic beginnings: Caesar to Augustus; 4.1.2 The Augustan settlement: honoring divus Augustus; 4.1.3 Innovation into tradition: the Julio-Claudians; 4.1.4 Divi, divae, and the imperial family from the Flavians to the Severans; 4.1.5 The traditional gods; 4.2 An imperial palimpsest: the itinerary from Augustus to Septimius Severus; 4.2.1 Restoring cultural memory in Imperial Rome; 4.2.2 Deus Praesens: Imperial cult temples and triumphal arches; 5. Behind 'the Veil of power': ritual failure, ordinary humans, and Ludic processions during the High Empire; 5.1 Imperial ritual failure; 5.2 'Ordinary' humans in the pompa circensis; 5.3 The pompa circensis outside Rome and the pompa (amphi-)theatralis; 5.3.1 The pompa circensis outside Rome; 5.3.2 The pompa (amphi-)theatralis; 5.4 'The horses, fleet as the wind, will contend for the first palm'; 6. The pompa circensis in Late Antiquity: imperialization, Christianization, restoration; 6.1 Pompa diaboli: Christian rhetoric and the pompa circensis; 6.2 Voluptates: imperial law and the 'secularization' of the ludi; 6.3 Emperors and victory: the pompa circensis in Late Antiquity; 6.4 The sub-imperial pompa circensis in Late Antiquity; 6.5 Restoring the 'Republic': the Late Antique itinerary; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£39.92
Cambridge University Press Urban Spectacle in Republican Milan
Book SynopsisThis Element aims at reconstructing and describing the main features of the French republican festivals in Milan, and their impact on the city's landscape, soundscape and self-representation. It offers some reflections on these events' consequences on the following century's patriotism/nationalism and cultural production.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Republican festivals in northern Italy: historical and ideological background; 2. The festivals and the city; Epilogue; Bibliography.
£17.00
Little, Brown Book Group The Event Managers Bible 3rd Edition
Book SynopsisAnyone responsible for organizing a voluntary or public event will want to do it safely and well, complying with the legislation relating to different aspects of their event. This book will help you to research, plan, organize, manage and deliver any event, match, show, tournament or function that will be attended by more than a handful of people. You may be running a gymkhana, fete, fun run, steam fayre, half marathon, carnival, school sports day, jumble sale, tennis tournament, car boot sale, model aircraft show or even a huge pop festival or Formula 1 car race. Whatever it is, the principles are the same. As event manager you will need to research, plan, liaise with authorities, obtain permissions and licences, comply with legal requirements and then deliver the event to the public.Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The event manager; 3. The event objective; 4. Planning the event; 5. Health & safety; 6. Type of event; 7. When to run the event; 8. Defining y
£15.29
New York University Press Queer Carnival
Book SynopsisThe importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ communityFestivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. In Queer Carnival, Amy Stone takes us inside these colorful, eye-catching, and often raucous events, highlighting their importance to queer life in America's urban South and Southwest. Drawing on five years of research, and over a hundred days at LGBTQ events in cities such as San Antonio, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, and Mobile, Stone gives readers a front-row seat to festivals, carnivals, and Mardi Gras celebrations, vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. Stone shows how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging in cities that may be otherwiseTrade ReviewIn this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Amy L. Stone takes readers on a journey through the possibilities of festivals in places that are usually overlooked in discussions of LGBTQ lives, loves, and celebrations. Exploring the importance and complexities of the carnivalesque for LGBTQ urban and broader cultures, they augment our current thinking about citizenship in accessible and engaging ways. This book is recommended reading for all interested in LGBTQ studies, festivals, cities, communities, and citizenship. * Kath Browne, co-author of Heteroactivism: Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities *Queer Carnival sparkles with extraordinary observations about overlooked parts of the country that receive too little attention but in which most queer people live—and where presidential elections are often decided. Stone convincingly shows that there is indeed ‘something reconciliatory about being desired for one's difference,’ whether this comes from the mayor attending your raunchy drag number or having a nephew escort his butch lesbian aunt to the stage * Greggor Mattson, author of The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform: Governing Loose Women *
£62.90
New York University Press Queer Carnival
Book SynopsisThe importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ communityFestivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. In Queer Carnival, Amy Stone takes us inside these colorful, eye-catching, and often raucous events, highlighting their importance to queer life in America's urban South and Southwest. Drawing on five years of research, and over a hundred days at LGBTQ events in cities such as San Antonio, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, and Mobile, Stone gives readers a front-row seat to festivals, carnivals, and Mardi Gras celebrations, vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. Stone shows how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging in cities that may be otherwiseTrade Review"In this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Amy L. Stone takes readers on a journey through the possibilities of festivals in places that are usually overlooked in discussions of LGBTQ lives, loves, and celebrations. Exploring the importance and complexities of the carnivalesque for LGBTQ urban and broader cultures, they augment our current thinking about citizenship in accessible and engaging ways. This book is recommended reading for all interested in LGBTQ studies, festivals, cities, communities, and citizenship." * Kath Browne, co-author of Heteroactivism: Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities *"Queer Carnival sparkles with extraordinary observations about overlooked parts of the country that receive too little attention but in which most queer people live—and where presidential elections are often decided. Stone convincingly shows that there is indeed ‘something reconciliatory about being desired for one's difference,’ whether this comes from the mayor attending your raunchy drag number or having a nephew escort his butch lesbian aunt to the stage" * Greggor Mattson, author of The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform: Governing Loose Women *
£23.74
Smithsonian Books Fair America: World'S Fairs in the United States
Book SynopsisSince their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions.Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
£12.59
Pelican Publishing Co Mardi Gras Treasures: Float Designs of the Golden
Book SynopsisThe fantastic parade floats of Carnival's Golden Age (1870-1930) depicted themes drawn from mythology, epic literature, history, nature, and whimsy. The glimmering processions of the masked gods and bearded kings of New Orleans Carnival occupy a central position among the rites and glories of this great festival. The long succession of these glowing, torch-lit pageants--with their towering monsters and fantastic decors, their papier-mch kingdoms and diamond-dust thrones--became the greatest and most beloved of New Orleans communal rituals. The introduction of the float brought tremendous artistry to the splendid conveyances for carnival revelry, but the artists and builders who created the fabled pageants have remained obscure or unknown, their amazing body of work largely forgotten. Even the surviving watercolor float plates and chromolithographed Carnival Bulletins are works of art and prized by collectors, as so few of these fragile items remain.Presented in this collection are dazzling examples of original float designs as rendered in watercolor and lithographs--most of them reproduced here for the first time.
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Aperture Zhang Xiao: Community Fire
Book SynopsisIn his project Community Fire, the photographer Zhang Xiao takes a local, hometown look at Shehuo (社火), a Chinese Spring Festival tradition celebrated in rural Northern Chinese communities that includes temple fairs, dragon dances, and storytelling. Shehuo— literally, “community fire”—is devoted to the worship of land and fire, and boasts a history of many thousands of years. During the festival, people hold ceremonies, pray for the next year’s good harvest, and confer blessings of peace and safety on all family members. However, what was once a heterogeneous cultural tradition with myriad regional variations has largely become a tourist-facing, consumption-oriented enterprise. In the early 2000s, Shehuo received an “intangible cultural heritage” designation from the People’s Republic of China, resulting in increased funding in exchange for greater government involvement. While altering the practitioners’ relation to Shehuo, this change expresses itself most visually in the way costumes and props have been replaced with newer, cheaper products from online shopping websites. Zhang’s colorful and fantastical photographs capture how these mass-produced substitutions have transformed the practice of Shehuo. Community Fire—with essays in English and Chinese—is a dynamic visual exploration of one of China’s oldest traditions. Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press
£40.00
Getty Trust Publications The Edible Monument - The Art of Food for
Book SynopsisThe Edible Monument considers the elaborate architecture, sculpture, and floats designed for court and civic celebrations in early modern Europe, including popular festivals such as Carnival and the Italian Cuccagna. Like illuminations and fireworks, ephemeral artworks made of food were not well documented and were difficult to describe because they were perishable and thus quickly consumed or destroyed. In times before photography and cookbooks, there were neither literary models nor iconography for how food and its preparation should be explained or depicted. Drawing on books, prints, and scrolls that document festival arts, elaborate banquets, and street feasts, the essays in this volume examine the mythic themes and personas employed to honor and celebrate rulers; the methods, materials, and wares used to prepare, depict, and serve food; and how foods such as sugar were transformed to express political goals or accomplishments. Although made for consumption, food could also be a work of art, both a special attraction and an expression of power. Formal occasions and spontaneous celebrations drew communities together, while special foods and seasonal menus revived ancient legends, evoking memories and recalling shared histories, values, and tastes. This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Getty Research Center from October 13, 2015, to March 23, 2016.Trade Review..".accessibly written, well-documented, and generously illustrated..."--Choice
£30.00
University of Iowa Press Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from
Book SynopsisFrom baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature, films, journalism, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, Wattstax, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that—far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves— these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light.
£16.10
Nova Science Publishers Inc Live & Local: A Study of U.S. Outdoor Arts
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Avalon Travel Publishing Rick Steves European Festivals (First Edition)
Book SynopsisIt's party time in Europe! Bestselling author Rick Steves explores the best festivals in Europe, from the Running of the Bulls in Spain to Carnival in Venice.There will be no museums! And no art galleries! Just Europeans having lots of fun. Across Europe, festival traditions go back centuries and are filled with time honored pageantry and ritual. Entire communities hurl themselves with abandon into the craziness. We'll careen all over Europe: the Palio horse races in Siena, the Highland games near Edinburgh, the colourful masquerade of Carnival in Venice, Slovenia, and Luzern, Easter festivities in Andalucía, Tuscany, and Greece, the springtime April Fair in Sevilla, Bastille Day in Paris, the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Oktoberfest in Munich, and Christmas markets and traditions in Nurnberg and Switzerland. With fascinating insights, rich history, and vivid photos, this great gift book captures the spirit of Europe's rich and fun-loving heritage. Hang on to your party hats!
£11.39
Arc Humanities Press Christ on a Donkey – Palm Sunday, Triumphal
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Arc Humanities Press Christ on a Donkey – Palm Sunday, Triumphal
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£28.45
Headline Publishing Group The Little Book of St Patrick's Day: A compendium
Book SynopsisPotted history, quirky facts, sayings, hints and tips about Ireland's celebration and the saint it commemorates.The Little Book of St Patrick's Day will tell the story of St Patrick and how the holiday began, share the craic with a collection of sayings and describe how the festival is marked around the world (and in outer space).Separate the myths from the facts, find out how to celebrate at home and be dazzled by quirky facts and stats. Why is the shamrock the symbol of the day, did St Patrick really drive snakes out of Ireland and what should you eat and drink on March 17th?Find out in this pocket-sized guide to this Irish celebration that has enchanted people of all backgrounds across the globe.'For the whole world is Irish on the Seventeenth o' March!' The Irish-American poet Thomas Augustine Daly, as seen on Bustle.comOn St Patrick's Day 2011, the Irish-American astronaut Catherine Coleman played a 100-year-old flute belonging to the Irish band The Chieftains, while floating weightless in the space station. Her performance was later included in a track called The Chieftains in Orbit. Table of ContentsWe need to talk about Patrick • A shot of history • Magic and myths • Having the Craic (quotes) • Global Gaelic gaiety (St Patrick's Day around world and in space) • How to celebrate
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The History Press Ltd The Little Book of Hogmanay
Book SynopsisDid You Know? No one knows the origin of the word Hogmanay. Until late in the twentieth century, Hogmanay was celebrated on two distinct dates, twelve days apart. On the island of Islay, it was a Hogmanay custom to predict who you would marry by throwing fish at the wall. There is more to Hogmanay than fireworks firstfooting, Guisers, thiggers, mass ball games, clavies and the Dingwall Crate all feature within. Oh, and don't forget to look out for the Trows! The Little Book of Hogmanay is a feast of information exploring the history, folklore, tales, food, drink and traditions of Hogmanay, from its pagan roots to its celebratory present.Whether you need a user's guide or an anthology of entertainment, The Little Book of Hogmanay will tell you all you ever wanted to know about Scotland's most widely and wildly celebrated festival.
£11.69
Luath Press Ltd The Edinburgh Festival: A Biography
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Luath Press Ltd Demarco's Edinburgh
Book SynopsisGallery Director, artist and teacher Richard Demarco was in at the very start of the Edinburgh Festival in August 1947. Born at the beginning of that same year, Roddy Martine’s involvement commenced in 1963 when, at the age of sixteen, he edited an Edinburgh Festival magazine. Therefore both Richard and Roddy have highly individual memories of the most remarkable international festival of the arts the world has ever known. At the same time, both have witnessed its evolution from the noble vision of its founders. Now in its seventy-sixth year, can the Edinburgh Festival survive?Demarco’s Edinburgh will be a hit with any Edinburgh Festival regular, newbie or on-and-off visitor. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the modern history of Edinburgh or the world of the arts, given the central role the festivals hold in the culture of both.Trade ReviewAs well as being recognised internationally as an artist, Richard is equally recognised as the promoter of exhibitions and theatre events that have broken new ground in Britain and further beyond, to which the long list of his national and international awards and honours attests. His writing is as idiosyncratic and enthralling as his drawings, driven by true passion and belief, the personal account of an artist whose deeply rooted and abiding love for his native Scotland shines clearly in his words. RICHARD NOYCEEveryone’s pride in the Festival’s achievements is tangible and infectious. NICOLA BENEDETTI, Festival Director on the Edinburgh FestivalsThe Scottish artist Richard Demarco once said: "The Scots think of it as their capital; they're too possessive, Edinburgh belongs to the world." And following a recent visit to the Scottish capital, I can see what he means. MICHAEL MCCREADY, Belfast Telegraph
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BookLife Publishing Celebrations Around the World
Book SynopsisAll over the world, people love to celebrate! Whether it is a religious festival or a family event, there are many celebrations and traditions to discover.
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