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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Carnivals"”.
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A Center for Dance and Carnivals: Temporary vs. Permanent
How to create a permanent house for a temporary event? How to provide a comfortable environment in an extreme climate?
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“THIS UNHALLOWED SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT” ; CARNIVAL INFECTION IN THE MOUNTEBANK’S CHILDREN AND “THE NEW MOTHER”
… and “corrupt” were terms also associated with carnivals, which influenced people opposed to carnivals such as Evangelical Christians and Traditionists to believe carnivals were vectors of disease. “The New Mother” and <em>The Mountebank’s Children </em>not only demonstrate how carnival …
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"""Lo Nuestro es lo Verdadero:"" Cultural politics, musical nationalism, and the image of Brazil in Dominican National Carnival"
… has quickly transformed into the world-model for carnivals in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the image of Brazil has played an increasingly influential role in the development of carnival in the Dominican Republic. There are many factors …
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Harry E. "Indian" Miller: Spectacles of Identity in the Early Twentieth Century American Southwest
… in ethnographic sideshow spectacles in carnivals. I argue that Miller’s Indian persona and the Miller family’s work in carnivals reflect broader shifts in Western identity formation during the early twentieth century. While engaging in commercial enterprises dependent upon racial and …
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Carnaval de Salvador: Mercantilização e Produção de Espaços de Exclusão, Segregação e Conflito/
… initially adopting models imported from European carnivals. However, even at that stage, he was already able to make his mark through the entities that came to the streets bringing African motifs and that, later, would be known as Afoxés. Throughout the 20th century, carnival incorporated the most …
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The politics of aesthetics and performance: Visuality and the remaking of culture in the Calabar Festival and Carnival, 2004 -2019
… festivals had been appropriated into Caribbean carnivals and were performed from around the second half of the 18th century, particularly in the Trinidadian carnival. In 2004, it returned to Africa and was remade at a time of political-economic change that demanded diversification and the …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… literary culture in narratives of heterotopic carnivals which he imbues with a distinctly Modern temporality. This carnivalesque expression translates into further heterogeneity in the forms of intertextuality that the thesis reads in Chapter II, “Poe’s Purloined Letters: Plagiarism, …
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Black Analogue: Practices in US and UK Experimental Filmmaking as Methodological Approaches for a New Black Aesthetic
… errs from aesthetic norms at the spectacle of UK carnivals. By testing the viability of these Black Aesthetic Strategies, I show 16mm as an important practice of present day Black experimental filmmaking. The New Black Aesthetic conclusion I propose centres around labour, relation, sociality and …
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Wonderbrass: Creating a Community Through Music
… which was formed to perform at community carnivals around South Wales. Wonderbrass has been through numerous personnel, leadership, committee-member, musical and artistic changes but continues to be strong until today. Drawing inspiration from such musical collectives as The Association …
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Drag performance, identity, and cultural perception
… carnivalesque is used to argue that the carnivals encourage the audience to review their gender development, revitalising the culture.Finally, the fifth chapter demonstrates how these differing theoretical strands enable televised drag performance to challenge censure by questioning …
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Trinidad Carnival : improving design through computation and digital technology
… Carnival of Trinidad has spawned more than 70 carnivals around the globe. It is the most copied, but yet most understudied carnival in the world. This thesis fills a gap in current literature by taking a computational and design perspective to this phenomenon.
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The grotesque in the works of Federico Fellini and Angela Carter
… it as Bakhtin appears to. She is well aware that carnivals, like her novels, are author(ized). In analyzing the continuum of Fellini's and Carter's works, both artists show an increased dependence on the use of the grotesque combined with postmodern strategies to support their intentions. However, …