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Morehead, John W. "Burning Man Festival as life-enhancing, post-Christendom 'middle way'." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.112-0001.
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Rootenberg, Cindy. "The influence of a wine festival on tourists' life satisfaction / Cindy Rootenberg." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3744.
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Magalhães, Augusto. "Socialização do espaço urbano: como um festival de artes interferiu na relação indivíduo/cotidiano na cidade de Areia, Brejo Paraibano, na década de 70." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2009. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/7324.
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Previous issue date: 2009-04-06<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>It is research in which we analyze the interaction and change of daily life in the city of Sand at
the completion of the Festival of Arts in council in the 70s. To make this analysis based on
social relations in the small town, with its codes and symbols, and uses the theoretical and
social Norbert Elias and Michel de Certeau to understand the webs in the chain of events,
which includes a Festival of Arts, though a short period of time, elements hitherto alien to the
residents living in Sand. We refer also to the "Age of Festivals" and the troubled military
regime in Brazil to understand the historical context in which the Festival happen and fight for
the youth of the time free speech. We analyze reports of artists and residents of the city,
together with based on social theories, to identify the interference of the individual in relation
Festivals / Areia. We are of daily life in the city during our research that the council has
already considered, in the nineteenth century, important cultural itinerary traders who came to
the States of Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte and the festivals held in the 1970s to
nurture cultural openness and some improvement of knowledge to others, involving the local
population, been losing strength in the 1980s revival and with other characteristics in mid 90s,
giving rise to the festivals of brega music that characterizes the city today.<br>Trata-se de pesquisa em que analisamos a interação e mudança de cotidiano da cidade de
Areia por ocasião da realização dos Festivais de Arte naquele município na década de 70.
Para fazer esta análise tomamos como base as relações sociais na pequena cidade, com seus
códigos e símbolos, e recorremos a teóricos sociais como Norbert Elias e Michel de Certeau
para compreender as teias dessa cadeia de acontecimentos, onde um Festival de Artes
incorpora, ainda que por pequeno período de tempo, elementos até então estranhos à
convivência dos moradores de Areia. Nos reportamos também à "Era dos Festivais" e ao
conturbado regime militar no Brasil para entender o contexto histórico em que aconteciam os
Festivais e a luta da juventude da época por liberdade de expressão.Analisamos relatos de
artistas e também de moradores da cidade para, com base em teorias sociais, identificar a
interferência dos Festivais na relação indivíduo/cotidiano na cidade de Areia.Constatamos
durante nossa pesquisa que o município já foi considerado, no século XIX, importante roteiro
cultural para comerciantes que vinham dos Estados de Pernambuco e Rio Grande do Norte e
que os Festivais realizados na década de 1970 oportunizaram abertura cultural para uns e
aprimoramento de conhecimentos para outros, envolvendo a população local, vindo a perder
força na década de 1980 e ressurgindo com outras características em meados anos 90, dando
lugar aos festivais de música brega que caracterizam a cidade hoje.
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Lane, Kevin A. "An Economic Impact Analysis For The 2nd Annual Bluegrass, Old-Time Music And Dance Festival in the Village of Stone Mountain, Georgia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/9.
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Festivals in the Appalachian region may provide a substantial economic impact for host communities. Regionally unique themes like Bluegrass and Old-Time music are substantial draw factors for potential visitors. This paper uses information collected at a small Appalachian themed music festival to project what the economic impact of hosting such an event is. Demographic information and an analysis of the festival visitor drawing area will further project the economic activity affected by the event.
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Hojsák, Aleš. "Zefektivnění návrhu projektu a aplikace metodiky projektového managementu pro vybraný projekt." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-386752.
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Diplomová práce je věnována aplikaci metod a nástrojů projektového řízení v rámci projektu “You2ber Life!”. Kapitola 1 studovala teoretické základy projektového řízení a jeho metod. Kapitola 2 hodnotí (současná situace, udržitelnost události, konkurenci a shrnutí poznatků získaných pro zlepšení v příštích letech). Kapitola 3 simuluje (finanční analýzu a návrh rozpočtu), definuje (cíl SMART, WBS a řízení času pomocí Ganttova diagramu), vysvětluje (význam lidských zdrojů při řízení projektů), objasňuje (význam lidských zdrojů při řízení projektů), vyhodnocuje (rizika) a skládá se z návrhů platných pro projekt “You2ber Life!”. Nicméně, po úpravách může být použita i v příštích letech.
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Beaubien, Brad M. "Community festivals and social capital." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217382.
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This research examines the relationship between community festivals and social capital across time and place. Social capital includes the social networks, norms, and trust that enable groups of individuals to cooperate in pursuing shared objectives, and benefits accrue to both the individual and the community. Research shows the ancient Greek and American Indian civilizations relied on festivals for a variety of purposes relating to social capital, including the bridging of social divides, the transmission of cultural heritage, and the reinforcement of community identity. Today, research findings from five small town festivals in Indiana indicate a similar relationship with social capital. Festivals can bring a community together, offer a shared experience for a diverse group of people, build new relationships, and foster community pride and identity. As such, community festivals may serve as a tool for community planners in building or sustaining social capital in a community.<br>Department of Urban Planning
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Lin, Patricia Yuen-Wan. "Cultural identity and ethnic representation in arts education : case studies of Taiwanese festivals in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0015/NQ56578.pdf.
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St, John Graham 1968. "Alternative cultural heterotopia ConFest as Australia's marginal centre." [Melbourne] : Confest Integrity Agency, 2000. http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-41333.
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Serafini, Gloria. "La sottotitolazione interlinguistica in tempo reale: il caso Ericsson Olanda e l'esperimento presso il festival Sedicicorto 2014." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/10173/.
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Al giorno d'oggi l'accessibilità all’informazione e ai prodotti audiovisivi è un argomento particolarmente delicato. Spesso, le categorie più svantaggiate, come le persone affette da disabilità sensoriali e gli stranieri, non hanno pieno accesso alla programmazione televisiva o a eventi ricreativi, culturali o formativi (conferenze, workshop, spettacoli), a causa della mancanza di adeguati servizi di supporto linguistico. Tale carenza rappresenta una mancata opportunità d’integrazione e anche una potenziale perdita, in termini di pubblico e di introiti, per le emittenti e gli enti che organizzano programmi ed eventi di interesse generale. Questa tesi intende analizzare le tecniche attraverso le quali oggi viene realizzata la sottotitolazione interlinguistica in tempo reale. Il nostro obiettivo è quello di dimostrare che approfondendo la ricerca scientifica sul respeaking e su altre tecniche meno costose rispetto alla stenotipia, la sottotitolazione interlinguistica in tempo reale non sarebbe più un miraggio. Il primo capitolo fornisce una panoramica sulla sottotitolazione intralinguistica e interlinguistica e sulla sottotitolazione preregistrata, in diretta e in semi-diretta. Nel secondo capitolo presenteremo il caso dell’azienda Ericsson in Olanda, l'unica a fornire sottotitolazione interlinguistica in tempo reale nei Paesi Bassi, tramite una tecnica che combina un interprete simultaneo, uno stenotipista e un "subtitle keyer" (figura che inserisce i sottotitoli al momento opportuno). La squadra lavora su un segnale dal vivo che viene però trasmesso al pubblico olandese con alcuni secondi di ritardo, permettendo di migliorare la qualità dei sottotitoli. Grazie ad una borsa di studio concessa dal Dipartimento d’Interpretazione e Traduzione di Forlì (Università di Bologna), abbiamo potuto intervistare il responsabile dell’unità di traduzione presso Ericsson, dott. Thijs de Korte, e abbiamo avuto modo di assistere in loco alla realizzazione dei sottotitoli interlinguistici in tempo reale. Il terzo capitolo si concentrerà sulla tecnica del respeaking, dagli ambiti d’uso ai requisiti per svolgere questa professione. Ci concentreremo in particolare sulle somiglianze tra respeaker e interprete simultaneo, che ci condurranno all'esperimento descritto nel capitolo 4. Infatti, date le somiglianze riscontrate tra interpretazione simultanea e respeaking e il potenziale in termini di accessibilità offerto dalla sottotitolazione interlinguistica dal vivo, abbiamo fornito un servizio sperimentale di sottotitolazione in diretta dall’italiano verso l’inglese durante la cerimonia di premiazione del Sedicicorto International Film Festival di Forlì. Dopo aver descritto in dettaglio l’esperienza, analizzeremo i giudizi espressi da ospiti stranieri, pubblico italiano e membri dell'associazione "Sedicicorto", al fine di verificare la qualità del servizio e osservarne i benefici. La conclusione della nostra tesi è che sfruttando appieno il potenziale offerto della tecnologia moderna e approfondendo la ricerca sulle tecniche per la sottotitolazione interlinguistica dal vivo, si potrebbero ridurre i costi dei servizi di supporto linguistico a non udenti e stranieri, incoraggiando dunque aziende ed enti a garantire una maggiore accessibilità all’informazione e agli eventi culturali e formativi.
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Morris, Brian John. "Journeys in extraordinary everyday culture : walking in the contemporary city /." Connect to thesis, 2001. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002256.
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Cestari, Guilherme Henrique de Oliveira. "Ambientação do vídeo em festas e festivais: signos de Stimmung, atmosferas e ambiência." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21294.
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Previous issue date: 2018-06-11<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>“Ambientation” is the continuous, purposive, and effective mediation
of the multimodal qualities creating a space of signs. Together with
djs, musicians, set and light designers as well as the participating
public, video jockeys (vjs) compose dance floor ambientations, while
manipulating and projecting audiovisual content in real time. This study
adopts a semiotic approach in the inquiry into the strategies through
which vjs create ambientations in their performances by means of live
visuals and soundscapes. Nine parties, shows, and festivals from 2011
to 2016 are the object of detailed semiotic and multimedia analyses.
Part 1 describes the data, exemplifies the variety of vjing scenarios, and
identifies live performance, synaesthetic effects, and collage as the three
principal strategies of creative practice. Part 2 introduces H. Gumbrecht’s
theory of the production of presence in light of C. S. Peirce’s semiotics.
It distinguishes six dimensions of presence that transform a dance
floor into a creative semiotic space: (1) Stimmung (free possibilities of
attunement), (2) mood (materialized quality), (3) atmosphere (or mood
chaining), (4) the environment (movement in the atmospheres), (5)
“scapes” (limitations and perceptual restrictions in the environment),
and (6) ambience (patterns regulating atmospheric transitions). During
a live video fruition, ambientation creates tensions oscillating between
effects of presence (contact and rhythm) and effects of sense (intellectual
depths and meanings). On the dance floor, vjs mobilize sensory qualities
and combine them with actions and habits. They build a universe of
Stimmungen from which all participants in the performance, immersed
and surrounded in ambientation, are free to choose and create their own
semiosic helix. The general effects of the event are commotion, emotive
condition, and energetic reaction, together with effects of meaning<br>Ambientação é a mediação contínua, propositada e efetiva de qualidades
multimodais que criam um espaço de signos. Juntamente com djs,
músicos, cenógrafos, iluminadores e com o público participante, vídeo
jóqueis (vjs) compõem ambientações nas pistas de dança ao manipular
e projetar conteúdo audiovisual em tempo presente. Este estudo adota
uma abordagem semiótica na investigação de estratégias usadas por
vjs, que criam ambientações em suas performances por meio de visuais
ao vivo e paisagens sonoras. Nove festas, shows e festivais ocorridos
entre 2011 e 2016 são o objeto de análise semiótica detalhada. A seção
I descreve os dados, exemplifica a variedade de cenários de vjing e
identifica performance ao vivo, efeitos sinestésicos e colagem como três
estratégias principais de prática criativa. A seção II apresenta a teoria
sobre produção de presença de H. Gumbrecht à luz da semiótica de C. S.
Peirce. Também distingue seis dimensões de presença que transformam
a pista de dança em um espaço criativo de signos: (1) Stimmung (livres
possibilidades de afinação), (2) humor (qualidade materializada), (3)
atmosfera (ou encadeamento entre humores), (4) ambiente (movimento
entre atmosferas), (5) paisagem (limitações e restrições perceptivas do
ambiente) e (6) ambiência (padrões que regulam transições atmosféricas).
Na pista de dança, vjs mobilizam qualidades sensórias, combinandoas
com ações e hábitos. Eles constroem um universo de Stimmungen
a partir dos quais todos os participantes na performance, imersos e
rodeados por ambientação, se veem livres para escolher e criar sua
própria hélice semiótica. Os efeitos gerais do evento são comoção,
emotividade e reações energéticas, juntamente com efeitos de sentido
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Tierney, Elaine Alice. "Strategies for celebration : realising the ideal celebratory city in London and Paris, 1660-1715." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39630/.
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Urban festival actively sought to transform the early modern city, creating an idealised space that was deemed to be a more suitable site for celebration. This dissertation shows how urban festival marked both the conjuncture and disjuncture between a rhetorical ideal and the challenges inherent in its practical realisation in London and Paris between 1660 and 1715. Celebrations were located in the real early modern city‐ a space that posed all manner of design problems for those responsible for designing, devising and choreographing festival. While the ideal celebratory city did exist in the rhetoric that informed preparations for events and their representation, festival also constituted a series of performances in real space and time that were subject to uncontrollable factors, such as poor weather, injury, uncooperative workforces and imperfect audience response. Only those charged with commemorating festival had full control over the event, producing the books, chronicles and illustrative material that are most often consulted as sources by festival historians. By means of a tripartite structure, this dissertation will interrogate how the deployment of the spectacular aspired to create the ideal celebratory city at three key moments in the narrative of every celebration. The first section focuses on the practical and legislative preparations made before events. The second section considers the evidence of what actually happened during the performance or realisation of the events. The third, and final, part of the dissertation looks at the representation of celebrations in printed textual descriptions and visual images. Starting from the evidence of objects, including viewing platforms, fireworks, temporary architecture and bonfires, it will suggest the extent to which the ideal was achieved and the ways in which it influenced the practice of those involved in its production. Moreover, as a single event could be informed by more than one version of the ideal celebratory city, evidence of preparation, performance and representation will also demonstrate how far celebrations were the product of contested ideals.
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Yang, Liaoran, and 杨了然. "Boon or bane?: changes in the Yi Fan Festivalof the Chinese Mulam minority after its designation as a national-level intangible cultural heritage." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50716426.
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There are 55 ethnic minorities (少數民族) in the People’s Republic of China, among which Mulam Minority (仫佬族) is a small one gathering in a remote town in the northern part of Guangxi Province.
Every group of people has their own culture and tradition, usually culture reflects on the food, drinks, clothe, rituals and festivals, etc. The most important festival of Mulam Minority is Yi Fan Festival (依飯節), which has been designated as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006. The current research will look into the changes in this particular festival after its designation in terms of both tangible and intangible aspects; also it’s a look into the local traditional culture within its context.
The identity of a culture is hard to define and is also changing with time. It is when based on the defined cultural identity can a tradition advance with time without losing its authenticity. How to make conservation become a part of the development is what we are facing in the fast-changing world.
Since festival consists an indispensable part of traditional culture, how to transmit it through media and how to interpret it becomes the key question. As a young stakeholder of the Mulam Minority, we should understand the opportunities, challenges, strengths and weaknesses of every change that is going to happen, and above all, carry on practicing.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Conservation<br>Master<br>Master of Science in Conservation
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Strain, Benjamin James Fredrickson William E. "A comparison of school district representation and school size classification representation related to the implimentation [sic] of a live versus audiotape audition process for the Kansas Music Educators Association Festival Band." Diss., UMK access, 2006.
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Thesis (M.M.)--Conservatory of Music. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006.<br>"A thesis in music education." Typescript. Advisor: William E. Fredrickson. Vita. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 9, 2007; title from "catalog record" of the print edition. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-65). Online version of the print edition.
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Baraut, Ingrid. "Mitjans digitals i públics escènics. La relació entre el públic i el producte cultural a través de la xarxa. Cas d'estudi: Festival Temporada Alta." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/457669.
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The aim is to determine how the media environment affects the way in which live performance is received, distributed, and participated in.
Based particularly on media and cultural convergence, the study analyses contemporary social changes regarding the public's interaction with the distribution, multiplication, interconnection and ubiquity of resources, and the flow of information and communication. The aim is to show that the current media ecosystem is in need of a new relationship with audiences.
12 in-depth interviews were conducted with performing arts professionals and a case study was carried out on audiences at the Temporada Alta performing arts festival. The empirical study lies in an online ethnographic study on the social interaction of audiences using Twitter and in an online survey.
The results of the study give insights into inequality in cultural participation, and propose a classification based on interactions between members of the audience and the cultural product.<br>La pregunta que se situa a l'origen d'aquesta investigació és com i perquè l'entorn mediàtic afecta la recepció, difusió i participació de l'art en viu.
Amb la base de l'ecologia dels mitjans, i considerant en particular la convergència mediàtica i cultural, s'analitzen els canvis socials contemporanis dels públics en relació directe amb la disseminació, la multiplicació, la interconnexió i la ubiqüitat dels recursos i els fluxos d'informació i comunicació. L'objectiu és demostrar que l'ecosistema mediàtic actual requereix una nova relació amb el públic.
S'han realitzat 12 entrevistes en profunditat a professionals del sector escènic i un estudi dels públics del festival d'arts escèniques Temporada Alta. L'anàlisi empírica es recolza en un estudi etnogràfic en línia de la interacció social dels públics del festival a la xarxa social de Twitter i en una enquesta per Internet als espectadors.
Els resultats contribueixen a una nova forma d'identificar la desigualtat de participació cultural.
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Maciel, Ana Paula Ara?jo. "Gest?o da qualidade dos servi?os em eventos: uma an?lise comparativa do festival folcl?rico de Parintins/AM e do desfile das escolas de samba do Rio de Janeiro/RJ atrav?s da t?cnica momento da verdade." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2015. http://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/21335.
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Previous issue date: 2015-12-11<br>Os eventos no mundo s?o motivadores significativos no turismo e figura relevante no desenvolvimento e comercializa??o dos planos da maioria dos destinos. Para sua realiza??o, necessitam de infraestrutura espec?fica, e t?m como contrapartida promover benef?cios ? localidade receptora. Para o sucesso dos mesmos, contam com servi?os essenciais oferecidos aos clientes. O objetivo central deste estudo refere-se em analisar os atributos da qualidade dos servi?os no Festival Folcl?rico de Parintins/AM e mostrar como se encontra o n?vel de qualidade do evento na percep??o dos participantes que consumiram os servi?os. Como objetivos espec?ficos, foram tra?ados 3 objetivos: a) Caracterizar o Festival Folcl?rico de Parintins/AM e o Desfile das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro/RJ; b) Identificar e analisar os atributos de qualidade de servi?os do Festival Folcl?rico de Parintins/AM e Desfile das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro/RJ, utilizando-se a t?cnica Momento da Verdade; c) Comparar o Festival Folcl?rico de Parintins/AM com o Desfile das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro (RJ), de acordo com os atributos de qualidade dos servi?os identificados e analisados. A metodologia est? disposta por an?lise qualitativa, explorat?ria descritiva, com observa??o direta, utilizando-se do ciclo do servi?o da t?cnica Momento da Verdade para observar cada etapa do mesmo. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com os atores envolvidos no planejamento, organiza??o e operacionaliza??o dos dois eventos, al?m das entrevistas com o p?blico presente. Como resposta aos objetivos estabelecidos, pode-se concluir que o n?vel de qualidade dos servi?os oferecidos no Festival Folcl?rico de Parintins encontra-se insatisfat?rio em alguns pontos dos momentos da verdade analisados. Observou-se ainda que h? limita??es que dificultam a presta??o do servi?o com o n?vel de qualidade.<br>Events in the world are significant motivators in tourism and relevant figure in the development and marketing plans of most destinations. For its realization, requires specific infrastructure, and promote benefits are offset to the receiving location. For the success thereof, they have essential services offered to customers. The main objective of this study refers to examine the attributes of service quality in the Folkloric Festival of Parintins / AM and show how the event is the level of quality as perceived by participants who consumed the services. Specific goals were set three objectives: a) Characterize the Folkloric Festival of Parintins / AM and the Samba Schools Parade of Rio de Janeiro / RJ; b) Identify and analyze the Folk Festival of the quality of service attributes of Parintins / AM and Samba Schools Parade of Rio de Janeiro / RJ, using the Moment of Truth technique; c) Compare the Folkloric Festival of Parintins / AM with Samba Schools Parade of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), according to the quality attributes of the identified and analyzed services. The methodology is prepared for qualitative analysis, descriptive exploratory, direct observation, using the Moment of Truth technical service cycle to observe every step of it. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with actors involved in the planning, organization and operation of the two events, in addition to interviews with the local public. As response to stated objectives, it can be concluded that the level of quality of services offered in Parintins Folklore Festival is unsatisfactory in some points of the analyzed real time. It was also observed that there are limitations that hinder the provision of the service to the level of quality.
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Baczkowski, Antoine. "L'expérience festive au sein de la vie : pour une sociologie de la place des raves, des free parties et des teknivals dans le parcours biographique." Thesis, Besançon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BESA1025.
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Les raves, les free parties et les teknivals, sont des fêtes techno à l'origine d'une panique morale en France. L'histoire sociale de ces phénomènes est celle d'une répression d'État. Nous avons tâché de saisir (l'essence de) l'expérience de ces fêtes, compte tenu d'un marqueur temporel et biographique : l'événement marquant (Michèle Leclerc-Olive, 1997). Il s'est agi dans un premier temps, pour des teuffeurs volontaires, et membres de Sound Systems, de se raconter dans le cadre d'entretiens biographiques. Puis, dans un deuxième temps, d'identifier, .avec notre aide, ce qui a orienté, et décidé de leur parcours. Leur vie ne fut-elle que délire ? Jouissance esthétique ? Un « activiste » techno n'est-il marqué que par la fête ? Les récits de vie de Marc, de Fabrice, de Marie-Sophie et de Gino, nous ont permis de répondre à ces questions<br>Raves, free parties and teknivals are techno parties that, in France, are the origin of moral panic. Their social history and phenomena are those of state suppression. This thesis attempts to catch (the essence of) the experience of these parties given a temporal and biographical event: The notewor1hy event (Michèle Leclerc-Olive, 1997). ln the first place the ravers and other voluntary members from Sound Systems told about themselves within the frame of biographical interviews. Then, as a second step, the goal was to identify, with our help, what guided and decided their path. Was their life only a "blast"? An aesthetically pleasing? Would a techno "activist" be marked only by celebration? Life stories of Marc, Fabrice, Marie Sophie and Gino helped us to bring a clear answer to these questions
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Siebers, Steven A. "slowness." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31607.
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lavare lente | a place for slow washing | alexandria, virginia
the proposal is for a slow laundering facility for alexandria, virginia. the building is intended to be slow and deliberate in its construction and inhabitation. without conventional machines, the architecture and the individual must take on increased roles in the process of washing. ideas about how slowness relates to memory, drawing and construction, and about how we might ground ourselves in a manageably paced lifestyle are at the root of the thesis.<br>Master of Architecture
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Guimiot, Baptiste Maxime Jean. "Music festivals as catalyzers for the development and regeneration of rural regions : an experience within waking life festival." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/30997.
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The following document corresponds to a report of an internship performed within the
Waking Life Associação, of a duration of 6 months, from February the 01st to August the 31st
of 2019. It offers to tackle the question of the development and regeneration of rural areas,
specifically in the region of Alentejo, Portugal, within different scopes of society such as - but
not only - the social, economic, cultural and ecologic spheres, and the relation between those
fields and cultural-led events of foreign initiative, of which Waking Life is part of. For instance,
the influence that the festival has on its surroundings, which can be the development of the land
where the festival happens every year, but also the relation and connections between the festival
and the town of Crato, the nearby entity administrating the land. The report will also analyses
the specifies of Waking Life and what makes the festival different compared to other music
festivals. A clear understanding of the festival’s artistic offer as well as the atmosphere aimed
to be created will be the base of the study.
The aim of the internship by itself was for me to get involved in the operational management of
the festival, specifically regarding the camping site and its infrastructures. The main tasks where
focused on working with local suppliers to sell various Portuguese products at the shop located
on the camping area, as well as developing a project together with festival-goes in the place of
the Creative Camps, where attendees of the festival where encouraged to create their own artistic
projects within the boundaries of the camping area.
The first part of the report will serve as an understanding of the sociological and economical
situations of the rural areas as well as exploring the solutions – might they be already existing
or not – and their nature to tackle the issues. In a second instance, the research will examine the
phenomenon of so-called ‘music festivals’ and how they differ from ‘traditional’ festivals.
Furthermore, the analysis will explore the different appealing aspects of the festivals to
understand their popularity and how they can contribute to proposing different experiences to
their crowd as well as the people involved internally and externally. In the second main part of
the research, the report will focus on Waking Life festival and its characteristics which define
the festival and differentiate it from other festival entities. Finally, the report will focus on the
internship experience and reflect on the regenerative processes through it, before concluding
with observations and results drawn from the experience in relation with the initial topic of the
research.
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Lee, Chu-Han, and 李居翰. "The Life and Death of Yi-Lan International Folklore and Folkgame Festival─the Examination of the Predicaments Challenging Festivals in Taiwan." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14347792162301719780.
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碩士<br>臺灣大學<br>新聞研究所<br>98<br>China Times released a series of in-depth reporting articles named ‘Enthusiasm of Festivals in Taiwan’ in 2006. The articles indicated some obstacles of festivals and events in Taiwan, and raised extensive discussions. In the article, Yi-Lan International Folklore and Folkgame Festival was indicated as a remarkable case study, especially its success on uniting the local community, bringing in the crowd, and to the extent, creating profitable benefits. However, in 2007, this extraordinary festival that had held 12 years in Taiwan was suddenly suspended, and such sudden movement left a big question mark in the public.
This case study focuses on finding the predicaments challenging festivals in Taiwan. The study is divided into two sections. First section is “academic research”, provides literature reviews on the development of cultural policy and related study. Second section is “in-depth reporting”, named ‘The Life and Death of Yi-Lan International Folklore and Folkgame Festival’.
The research results indicate five predicaments challenging festivals in Taiwan. First, the paradox between culture and economy. Second, the sway of governmental policy. Third, the gap between opposed political parties. Fourth, the disorder of festival essence. Fifth, excessively reliance on media resources.
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Remillard, David. "Festival Legitimacy and Resource Acquisition: Strategies for Growth and Survival." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23935.
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This thesis explores legitimacy and legitimation strategies for resource acquisition using a life cycle approach in the festival and events context. A review of the extant festival and event’s research, suggests this topic is significantly under-covered. For further theoretical development the thesis reviewed the literatures of resource acquisition, with particular attention to resource dependency theory, and institutional theory, with its sub-topic legitimacy. Using an exploratory qualitative case study method, the researcher investigated eight festivals and analyzed them in terms of their efforts to build legitimacy at different stages of their life cycle. The author confirmed earlier research on sources of legitimacy that include, regulatory, pragmatic, normative, and cognitive types, and that four general strategies, conformance, selection, manipulation, and creation are used to achieve legitimacy from these sources. The data in this thesis also suggests that the stage of the festival’s life cycle serves as an important extension to the literature's previously established process model of resource acquisition and legitimacy, including a legitimacy threshold. The thesis concludes with a summary of the findings, limitations of the study, and by suggesting possibilities for future research.
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Kuo, Ching-Ping, and 郭敬平. "Research on Marketing Strategies of Cultural and Creative Activity： The Case Study of Simple Life Festival." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7acq6t.
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碩士<br>銘傳大學<br>傳播管理學系碩士在職專班<br>101<br>Simple Life festival, a big cultural two-day event in Taipei Huashan1914 Creative Park has been hold every two years since 2006. It not only attracts more than 30,000 people, but also generates considerable income.
Furthermore, it is a collaborative creation on lifestyle aesthetics which combines music, architecture, design, exhibitions and life, on the 1st, 2nd of December 2012. The scale and business model are very innovative in Taiwan.
Hence, what are the values from this event and how to co-create it become the precious issue.
The issue will be discussing the idea of project prepare, media and the execution of activity and news. Finally we can analyze the whole effect about this project.
According the marketing strategies of cultural and creative activity about Simple Life festival, we can take different point of view to think the strategies from the 7-ELEVEN and StreetVoice company and we also can assist to creative the value of whole Integrated Marketing Communication in the business model.
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Li, Jinzhao. "Constructing Chinese America in Hawaiʻi: the Narcissus Festival, ethnic identity, and community transformation, 1949-2005". Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/12055.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.<br>Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 311-318).<br>Electronic reproduction.<br>Also available by subscription via World Wide Web<br>vi, [ii], 319 leaves, bound 29 cm
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Siou-Tao, Lin, and 林秀桃. "Movie Festival of Life Story in Classroom Theater-An Action Research of Integrated Teaching in Mandarin Learning-area for Grade Three." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33621054241647769297.
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碩士<br>臺北市立教育大學<br>課程與教學研究所<br>95<br>The study is an action research to discuss the practice of adopting movie as the teaching materials to teach life education to the third grade students. According to the essay discussion and teaching demand, I use "Fly Away Home ", "Quill ","Pay It Forward "," Robots "and so on 4 movies to develop four themes and thirty-two periods. The research subject is thirty-one students at the third grade in my class, and the life education curriculum is ten weeks.
Based on this research, the main conclusions are as follows:
1. Using the movie story to the third grade Mandarin learning-area for integrating the life education extremely has the feasibility.I
2. In the movie book club the opening dialogue and discussion which shows loving care for children are able to start the student to the life moral concern cordiality.
3. In the movie book club "the movie story net" writing can promote schoolchild's writing ability.
4. The experience -like activity design can expand the implementation result of the life concern curriculum.
5. In this action research other discoveries are:
(1) Community classroom curriculum can cause the student to obtain the real experience and the feeling.
(2) Teaching activity needs to be integrated and coherent to strengthen student's study result.
(3) Active-like study relaxed feeling can lead other low wish activities to obtain the study result.
(4)Movie reading can achieve the "speculating media reappearance" connotation of the media literacy education.
Finally, based on the research results, suggestions are provided for classroom teachers, school administrators and educational authorities for future life education research through movie.
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VYVADILOVÁ, Hana. "Hudební život na Telčsku - historie a současnost." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-45524.
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This diploma thesis gives a comprehensive picture of musical life in Telc, its personalities, music and festivals. The circumstances are recognized of their creation, described their activities and current status. Attention is also paid to other circumstances and conditions of musical life in Telc.
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Huang, Ching-Ke, and 黃鏡可. "Analysis on Festival Activities Teaching Materials In Lift Curriculum TextbookAnalysis on Festival Activities Teaching Materials In Lift Curriculum TextbookAnalysis on Festival Activities Teaching Materials In Lift Curriculum TextbookAnalysis on Fes." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05948144644809646345.
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碩士<br>國立臺東大學<br>教育研究所<br>93<br>Analysis on Festival Activities Teaching Materials
In Lift Curriculum Textbook
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With qualitative analysis methods, using documentary analysis method and interviewing to gather all information, this research is mainly to analyze “Festival Activities Teaching Materials” in life curriculum textbooks. The core purpose is to study the competence benchmarks, the selection and composition of festival activities teaching materials in life curriculum textbooks and propose the findings of research for teachers’ reference while they choose life curriculum textbook. The findings in the research show:
1 Competence benchmarks of festival activities teaching materials in life curriculum textbooks
The competence benchmark is actually different in each edition of life curriculum textbooks.
1.1 Kangxuan focuses more on arts and humanities fields.
1.2 Nanyi and Renlin concentrate more on the integration of three fields : social studies, arts and humanities, science and technology.
1.3 Hanlin focuses more on arts and humanities, science and technology.
2 Contents selection of festival activities teaching materials in life curriculum textbooks
2.1 Analysis based on contents
Hanlin which has 20 activities is the most plentiful; Kangxuan has 8 activities, both Nanyi and Renlin have 7 activities respectively.
2.2 Analysis based on category
2.2.1 “Tradition Chinese Festivals” category and “International Holidays” category are both selected by each edition of life curriculum textbooks.
2.2.2 Only one “Religious Belief” category is found in Hanlin.
2.2.3 “Aborigine Festivities” category can be found in Kangxuan and Hanlin, but not selected by Nanyi and Renlin.
2.2.4 “Memorial Days” category can be only found in Hanlin.
2.2.5 “Arts and Culture” and “Local Culture” categories are not selected by each edition.
3 Composition of festival activities teaching materials in life curriculum textbooks
3.1 Not any edition uses “subject” to edit the festival activities teaching materials.
3.2 The structure of lesson design in Kangxuan has 4 levels, in which there are 2 lessons presenting festival activities at the level “lesson”.
3.3 At the level “unit”, Kangxuan has 4 units, Nanyi has 1 unit, Renlin has 4 units, Hanlin has 5 units.
3.4 At the level “Teaching Activities”, Kangxuan has 23, Nanyi has 10, Renlin has 9, and Hanlin has 26.
3.5 Regarding the numbers of teaching section, Hanlin has 61-65, secondly Nanyi has 53, then Renlin has 45, and Kangxuan has 36, the least version.
4 Suggestions
4.1 It is necessary to diversify the contents of festival activities teaching materials in life curriculum textbooks.
4.2 The selection and composition of festival activities teaching materials in life curriculum textbooks should be diversified based on different races.
4.3 Teachers can well apply the alternative learning curriculum in order to select appropriate festival activities teaching materials for elementary school students and integrate it into school-based curriculum or semester core curriculum as well.
4.4 This research is carried out by means of the qualitative analysis method; the further study can choose the quantitative analysis and statistic as method in order to understand the comments of teachers and elementary school students on “Festival Activities Teaching Materials” in life curriculum textbooks.
Keywords：life curriculum, festival activities teaching materials, life curriculum textbooks.
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Chao, Tan-Yu, and 趙丹瑜. "Do You Smell Like Formoz Spirit？--A Generation Story About Formoz Festival." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33642492022207843072.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>新聞研究所<br>99<br>Among Taiwan’s music festivals,“Formoz Festival”, which started from 1995, has recorded the musical memories of fans and the development of Taiwan’s indie music. However, in 2009, the host declared the halt of Formoz Festival suddenly, which made every participant sob extremely. The halt showed that hosting a musical festival seemed not just ideal Utopia imagination, but had to be faced with various difficulties under different space and time.
“Formoz Festival”started from the establishment of“Rock Union of the Northern Universities”, launched by a Fu Jen student, Hsu-heng-wei. He united the clubs of pop music in every university and held a concert in the square of NTU for free. After Hsu-heng-wei took military service in 1998, Lin-chang-tso (Freddy) took charge of this annual concert. He changed its name into“Taiwan’s Musical Revolutionists”and connected the musical groups in different locations in Taiwan by the internet. In 2000, the name of the festival shifted into“Taiwan Rock Alliance”. Formoz Festival hosted successively in the square of NTU, the square of Taipei fine arts museum, and Taipei City Hall. Finally it was held in Taipei children’s recreation center and enlarged its scale to carnivals step by step.
To the musical fans of every generation, these memories, no matter the humble concerts but with great passion held in Da-An Forest Park long time ago, or the luxurious design of the stage, which made it like a carnival these years, impressed deeply the fans of different generations.
“Formoz Festival”, which existed from 1995 to 2008, indeed recorded the bands around the millennium and the youth of every musical fan. It was not only the cradle of Taiwan underground groups and connected the common spirits of musical fans, but also drew out the musical picture of Formoz generations. This reports aims to investigate the development of this fourteen-year festival by visiting those participants and to grasp the generation picture by comparing Formoz Festival and those overboard musical fans.
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Small, Katie E., University of Western Sydney, College of Business, and School of Marketing. "Understanding the social impacts of festivals on communities." 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/37653.
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This thesis seeks to understand the social impacts that festivals have on their host communities. It focuses on community festivals as one type of event which have a particularly strong connection to their host community. Community festivals are traditionally organised by and for the local community, and often celebrate a theme that has developed from within the community itself. Community festivals provide members of a community with opportunities to engage in socialisation, entertainment and the establishment of social networks, which can contribute to the enhancement of community cohesion and the building of social capital within a community. Additionally, they can provide tourism benefits such as increased visitation and promotion of a destination’s image. However, there is the potential for negative social impacts to result from the hosting of a festival, including traffic congestion, overcrowding, vandalism and increased antisocial behaviour. This thesis seeks to understand the perceived social impacts of community festivals from the perspective of the resident population. Six important questions are addressed in this thesis: 1) what are the underlying dimensions of the social impacts of community festivals?; 2) what are a host community’s expectations and perceptions of the social impacts of a festival?; 3) are there distinct subgroups within a community who differ in their feelings towards a festival?; 4) do these subgroups hold differing perceptions of the social impacts of community festivals?; 5) can the Social Impact Perception (SIP) scale be used to measure residents’ perceptions of the social impacts of community festivals?; and 6) what are the implications of this research for the planning and management of future community festivals? In order to explore these issues, this study draws on literature from the areas of tourism and sociology. It is from the tourism literature, more specifically on events, that community festivals are introduced as the focus of this thesis. The sociological literature on communities reinforces the importance of the ‘community’ in community festivals, and examines the role that festivals can play in contributing to community development, community wellbeing and the enhancement of social capital. Two community festivals were studied, one in Western Australia and the other in Victoria, Australia. Data were collected from residents in each of these two communities at one point in time following the staging of their festival. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used, including semi-structured interviews, focus groups, observational techniques, document analysis and a residents’ perceptions questionnaire. The results revealed that there are distinct subgroups within a community who choose to be involved with their festival in a range of ways and who perceive the social impacts resulting from the festival quite differently. These subgroups have been labelled the tolerators, economically connected, attendees, avoiders and volunteers. Whilst holding varied perceptions of the positive and negative nature of the impacts and levels at which they occur, residents perceive the social impacts of community festivals to occur within six impact dimensions: inconvenience, community identity and cohesion, personal frustration, entertainment and socialisation opportunities, community growth and development, and behavioural consequences. Those residents who participate in the festival, either as volunteers or attendees, tend to be those who are most positive about the festival and its impacts. This participation in the community provides opportunities for social transactions, relationship building and the development of social networks, which in turn have positive outcomes for community wellbeing and the development of social capital. This research has a number of implications for the management of future community festivals, in respect to providing a better understanding of residents’ perceptions of the social impacts a festival creates; towards better satisfying the diverse needs of distinct community subgroups; and related to how festivals can be used to contribute to community wellbeing and the enhancement of social capital.<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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"The cultural construction of festivals in a cosmopolis: a comparison of Christmas and the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong." 1999. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889953.
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Tsang Mei Lan.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-128).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Acknowledgements --- p.iii<br>Abstract --- p.iv<br>Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1<br>Chapter 1. --- Research Problem --- p.1<br>Chapter 2. --- Anthropological Background of Festivals --- p.4<br>On Rituals<br>On Cultural Identity<br>Chapter 3. --- Theoretical Framework --- p.8<br>On Hong Kong<br>On Festivals<br>Chapter 4. --- Methodology --- p.14<br>Participant Observation and Ethnographic Interviews Written Materials and News Collecting<br>Chapter 5. --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.17<br>Chapter Chapter 2 --- Historical Background --- p.19<br>Chapter 1. --- From Ethnic Conflict to Cultural Borrowing -- Christmas in Hong Kong --- p.19<br>Chapter 2. --- Changes of Tradition --Hong Kong's Lunar New Year --- p.30<br>Chapter 3. --- Creation of Local Identity in Hong Kong --- p.39<br>Chapter Chapter 3 --- Making Up Christmas in Hong Kong --- p.42<br>Chapter 1. --- Christmas in The Air --- p.43<br>Chapter 2. --- Constructing Via Consuming --- p.47<br>Christmas Commodities<br>Christmas Activities<br>Chapter 3. --- Different Interpretation of Christmas --- p.56<br>Consumption for Christmas<br>Social Relations in Christmas<br>Chapter 4. --- Cultural Analysis --- p.73<br>Westerness<br>Dialectics in Constructing Christmas<br>Christmas - An Everlasting Process of Construction<br>Chapter Chapter 4 --- Inheritance of Lunar New Year in Hong Kong --- p.79<br>Chapter 1. --- Lunar New Year in Life --- p.79<br>Chapter 2. --- Constructing Via Customs and Myths --- p.82<br>Rituals before New Year's Day<br>Rituals on and after New Year's Day<br>Chapter 3. --- Unified Meanings of Lunar New Year --- p.85<br>A Family Festival<br>An Experience of Community<br>A Carnival of Customs<br>Chapter 4. --- Reconstructing Lunar New Year --- p.95<br>Lost Traditions<br>Creation of Traditions<br>Boundless Traditions<br>Chapter 5. --- Lunar New Year - A Cultural Memory --- p.103<br>Chapter Chapter 5 --- A Comparison of the Festivals --- p.107<br>Chapter 1. --- Unspecification of Festivities --- p.107<br>Chapter 2. --- Meaning for Festivals --- p.109<br>Chapter 3. --- Cultural Imagination --- p.111<br>Christmas - A Foreign Festival<br>Lunar New Year - A Traditional Festival<br>Chapter 4. --- Festivals as Social Process --- p.117<br>Chapter 5. --- Festivals as Pools for Constructing Identity --- p.118<br>References --- p.122<br>Books and Journals<br>Newspaper and Magazines
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Wu, Cheng-Mei, and 巫正梅. "Taroko Tribal Music Festival's Drama－Back Stage of Uyas Community Performance in Daily Life." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73173599619422068843.
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碩士<br>國立東華大學<br>觀光暨遊憩管理研究所<br>97<br>Based on the theory of front stage and back stage, this research examines the Taroko Tribal Music Festival and distinguishes the front stage presented to the audience from the back stage where performers practice, prepare for performances and live. This study aims to investigate into the empowerment and coordination of the Uyas community and cultural representations in their performances. The research field included the Uyas community near the Taroko National Park and the front/back stages of the Tribal Music Festival. With ethnographical methods, the researcher gained access into the back stage and discovered that two church followers cooperated in the back stage preparation, while the churches conducted performance trainings and coordinated the performers. The young and the old in the Uyas community all participated in the performances to pass down the Truku cultural traditions and identies, to gain skills and empowerment, to spend leisure time and to earn money. With this study, the researcher not only suggests that the Uyas community revise and improve their performances, but also expects the administrators of the Taroko National Park to take concern for the coordination in the front/back stages of the Taroko Tribal Music Festival.
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LeFlore, Elizabeth Hawthorne 1972. "The force of devotion : performing a transnational spirituality." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18447.
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This dissertation explores the role of popular religion in a transnational community by examining the performance of devotion to local patron saints, virgin mothers and sacred crosses. Annually in May, Empalme Escobedo, Guanajuato, Mexico celebrates San Isidro Labrador (the patron saint of farmers), Maria Auxiliadora (the patroness of railroad laborers) and the Santa Cruz de Picacho (Sacred Cross of Picacho). Following the celebrations many of the male participants in the fiestas travel to Texas to work in agriculture or the service industry. Consequently, devotion to the saint(s) moves with migrants back and forth across the Mexican-U.S. border. My thesis is that the force of devotion gives voice to the tension between the desire for solidarity (experienced through fiesta performance) and the erosion of the community by migration (experienced as absence and dissolution). What I call the force of devotion refers to the social processes, expressive culture, continuity and change that make up a transnational community's system of beliefs and practices and enable folks to understand, explain or cope with everyday life. The force of devotion is the key analytic frame through which I interpret the articulations of spirituality and popular religion, impermanence and fragmentation, absence and hope. The central questions posed in this dissertation emerge from the stories folks in Empalme Escobedo tell about their lives. Consultants talk about their devotion as an expression of faith, a necessary guidance through daily life and a symbol of hope. Tracking the force of devotion exposes social relationships, emotional and intimate experiences, desires and fears. Memory of and participation in the fiestas not only symbolize the force of devotion, but also serve as a connection to separated family members and place of origin. The everyday reality of the absence of loved ones and the fragmentation of the community as a result of migration amplifies the human desire for sociability and solidarity. The fiesta performance provides a space in which the consciousness of communal boundaries is heightened, thereby confirming and strengthening the experience of the social and the force of devotion.<br>text
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Lee, Szu-Wei, and 李思薇. "Lingering and Wandering in the Face of Cultural Events---Mapping the Images of Taipei Cultural Life with City Festivals." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85775329532452336976.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>建築與城鄉研究所<br>93<br>In the past decade cultural events has become a popular method of local industry, tourist promotion, and cultural governance. All kinds of forms as festival, ceremony, or carnival flow in the city, Taipei, which is full of consumer imagination and heterogeneous culture. Cultural events are viewed as the surface of city, reflecting vague images of cultural life in Taipei.
Illustrated with four events in August, 2004—Multi-People Carnival, Taipei Art Festival, Plaza Festival and Migration Music Festival, the research is aimed to present the content of cultural life in specific space-time with those little narratives of culutral events from citizen’s viewpoint. By means of personal conservation, text-analysis, and in-depth interview, I found a sophisticated system of strategy behind the surface, which involves power relations between citizens, agents, and the unknown voyeur. Different kinds of gaze as the mirror image between subject and city space, the value-manipulation by agents, and the discipline of power, intertwine with each other. Consequently most cultural events fail to connect with everyday life as well as to reflect citizen’ real demand for cultural life. While people are acting and moving in the city, the intermingled representation system becomes a cultural battle.
Cultural events play the role of an interface between citizens’ perception and the city. In the trajectories of rest and wander, Citizens develop personal tactics in the meantime. Through the space-writing of cultural events, participatory bodies keep accumulating the meaning of city space. In the face of heteroglossia in Taipei, the research points out that the performativity of cultural events must be pinned down to the context of local culture and citizen’s life and strengthened connection with time/space of the city. Concerning numbers of cultural events coming up, only when the focus is returned to citizen’s vision field and contact zone, can the city’s screen mirror a clear image of Taipei culture life.
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Willis, K. G., and Jen Snowball. "Investigating how the attributes of live theatre productions influence consumption choices using conjoint analysis : the example of the National Arts Festival, South Africa." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003825.
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While there is a fair amount of work on determinants of demand for the live performing arts, results have often been contradictory with little explanatory power. This may be because of the difficulty in describing the attributes of a performance, particularly in terms of its quality, and the heterogeneity of consumer preferences. This article uses conjoint analysis, also called choice experiments, to investigate the impact of the attributes of live theatre performances on demand, using data collected from 483 randomly chosen attenders at live theatre performances at the 2008 South African National Arts Festival. Attributes include the type of cast (professional, semi-professional or amateur), reputation of the producer/director, the context or setting, production type and ticket price of the show. Results largely support the a priori expectations based on the results of other demand studies. For example, it is found that the age of consumers affects the type of show chosen, that utility and willingness to pay increase for shows with professional and semi-professional casts and that 93% of the potential audience prefer shows with a South African context. It is concluded that the method could prove useful to both event organisers and policy makers, especially where the goal is to broaden access to the arts.
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Byl, Sheila Ann. "The essence and use of perfume in ancient Egypt." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8105.
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The ancient Egyptians were famous for their exotic and luxury perfumes in the ancient world, even having cities that specialised in perfume production in the Ptolemaic Period, when they exported these perfumes all over the Mediterranean. They produced these perfumes, and other scented preparations, from aromatic plants, fats and oils. The deities were fragrant beings, imbued with the divine essence, and perfume was considered by the Egyptians to be the sweat of the god Ra. Some deities were specially linked to perfume, one of the most important being Nefertem, god of perfume and of the primordial fragrant blue lotus flower. Incense was to the Egyptians the ‘eye of Horus’, burnt as an offering to the deities in temples. Aromatic plant material was stored in perfume/unguent ‘laboratories’, and perfumers’ workshops produced the precious perfumed oils and unguents, used in the funerary context, rituals, ceremonies, festivals and banquets.<br>History<br>M.A.
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Andrš, Pavel. "Problematika postavení německého etnika v prvorepublikovém Československu na příkladu nejdeckého okresu." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-357963.
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The subject of this dissertation thesis is investigating the issue of the German ethnic group status in inter-war Czechoslovakia shown in the example of the Nejdek political district with the emphasis on the major and crucial aspects of social life - politics, economic and social issues while the assistance and support elements include: demographics, border issues, the presence of the Czech ethnic group, a preview of own (German) history and the development of churches and religion. The Nejdek political district is set within a framework of regional history with regard to the historical context of the development of Czechoslovakia, or even of the world in some cases. The regional history presented here in the form of a probe from the perspective of great historical events and partly through micro-history aim to build on the broad source base and capture the impacts and effects of national policies on shaping of the Nejdek region and its inhabitants. In some ways, when possible of course, research methods are applied. Overall, the work is to fill the so-called white gaps in the regional historiography, since the books or studies published so far have been focusing only on partial, closely regionally defined topics and only comprehensive work, which the author of this paper attempts, could therefore...