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Showing 1 to 20 of 227 for “"Festivals"”.
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Festivals, Function and Context: An Ethnographic Study of Three Festivals at Holden Village
… purpose of this thesis is to explore how three festivals function together to meet the Mission Statement goals of Holden Village, an isolated Lutheran renewal center located in the Cascade mountains in Washington State. The Holden Village Mission Statement states that Holden Village is organized …
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The Contribution of Festivals to City Branding
The economic contribution of festivals and events has been widely acknowledged, but the relationship between a festival and city branding has received little attention. This thesis explores the role of festival stakeholders in the development of a city brand, providing a detailed account of city …
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Universities and festivals : cultural production in context
… bounded cultural formation, a festival. Festivals have not been extensively researched in this particular context and the understanding gained about the processes, structures and human networks through which they are designed, developed and delivered constitutes an original contribution …
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International Film Festivals as Field-Configuring Events
… forthcoming on events such as international film festivals that serve a similar function. A new theoretical framework - field-configuring events (FCEs) by Lampel' and Meyer (2008) seeks to rectify the lack of attention paid to 'events' by organization scientists. . Adopting their framework, my …
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Film festivals in Africa: a study in sustainability
The sustainable future of film festivals in Africa is a vital issue based on the critical role that film festivals play in African filmmaking, and yet has not been widely investigated. This thesis identifies four key factors that I argue are essential to this sustainable future. These factors are: …
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Recreating and Deconstructing the Shifting Politics of (Bluegrass) Festivals
… 15 festival field sites, I examine bluegrass festivals as sites of identity production through feminist methodologies and a participatory ethnographic approach. This requires careful analysis of the nature of the genre's audience and audience members' investments in the process of framing the …
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Music and arts festivals as platforms for enhancing Sustainable Development
… ways in which contemporary music and arts festivals might operate as platforms for enhancing Sustainable Development. The central idea is to explore the way in which music and arts festivals, through strategies of socio-environmental awareness and education, community building and social …
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Seeking Mirrors: Representation and Identity at Asian Pacific Islander Film Festivals
… Pacific Islander (API) attendees at API film festivals. Compared to mainstream media, where less than 6% of characters are API, API film festivals focus exclusively on films featuring API characters, as well as international films from Asia. API film festivals, therefore, are rich sites for …
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Archiving and Advocating for Performance Festivals as Sites of Disciplinary Action
Performance festivals have a unique, significant, but largely undocumented history in the discipline of Performance Studies. Despite the vital role they serve in invigorating, sustaining and renewing interest in this field, little formal research has been devoted to studying the history, structure …
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Festivals as a sustainable development tool: Case study of Teriberka, Russia
1 PDF file (109 pages)
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Humanizing the city : festivals as a human adaptation of public space
As currently conceived, the contemporary city will not advance beyond its present level of achievement. This research frames the city within three root values upon which all decisions made in the city are based. The three root values are continuity, connection and openness. Under the present …
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Pre-Christian Survivals in the Festivals, Rites, and Symbols of the Church
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. May 1909. Major: Sociology and Anthropology. 1 computer file (PDF); 74, iii pages.
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Transformational Festivals and the Enchantment Economy: Performance and Race in Neoliberal Times
… with particular emphasis on “Transformational Festivals,” a genre of participatory, for-profit event influenced by New Age ideology and aesthetics. I use ethnographic examination of these festivals in the United States and Costa Rica as a basis for understanding the role that participatory …
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Homecoming Festivals: The Re-accentuated Image of Don Quixote in Western Novel
The publication of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) impacted significantly the dynamics of Western literature. The renowned novel, which builds upon a considerable number of characters and episodes, is considered one of the most read and most analyzed pieces of literature in the world. This novel opens a …
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Customer-to-customer co-creation of value in the context of festivals.
… dense service setting of multi-day outdoor festivals, using the concept of value-forming social practices as a theoretical lens. The methodological design is guided by the social constructionist stance, which complements the practice-based value approach in co-creation research by …
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A large establishment in the country for the celibration of histrionic festivals
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1908.
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Four Festivals and a City: A critique of Actor-Network Theory as an approach to understanding the emergence and development of Flagship Festivals in Kilkenny from 1964 to 2004
… the emergence and development of four flagship festivals in Kilkenny from 1964 to 2004. The thesis compares Kilkenny’s four catalyst festivals (The Kilkenny Beer Festival, Kilkenny Arts Week, The Confederation of Kilkenny Festival and the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival) and assesses the ability of …
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Indigenous Narrative Sovereignty: Pathways Through Turtle Island Film Festivals and Diverse Media Ecosystems
This dissertation follows Indigenous filmmakers today and examines their surrounding support structures through: the development of Kin Theory, an Indigenous media makers database, the 4th World Media Lab fellowship for emerging Indigenous filmmakers, and the world's largest presenter of Indigenous …
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