Pageants, parades, festivals books

This book celebrates and builds on Alan Clarke (1956-2021) and Allan Jepson’s 2015 book Exploring Community Festivals...  Read More >>

The BBC Proms is the world’s biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown...  Read More >>

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This book extends current knowledge and understanding of festival experiences. Relying on a series of international...  Read More >>

Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often...  Read More >>

This Element aims at reconstructing and describing the main features of the French republican festivals in Milan,...  Read More >>

In his project Community Fire, the photographer Zhang Xiao takes a local, hometown look at Shehuo (社火), a Chinese...  Read More >>

Gallery Director, artist and teacher Richard Demarco was in at the very start of the Edinburgh Festival in August...  Read More >>

Following the publication of The Edinburgh Festival, Doing the Festival, by arts and culture writer David Pollock,...  Read More >>

Burning Man: Art on Fire, Revised and Updated Edition is an authorized collection of the best of Burning Man art...  Read More >>

The first full-length treatment of the Panathenaia, the most important festival in ancient Athens. Investigates...  Read More >>

This book reviews the development of confraternities and shows how the procession emerged as a narrative-dramatic...  Read More >>

Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.  Read More >>

Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical...  Read More >>

Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical...  Read More >>

Explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized...  Read More >>

The essays in this collection are the participant observations of performers and attendees of Woodstock and related...  Read More >>

One of Us Is Lying meets Lord of the Flies meets Fyre Fest in this wickedly addictive and funny YA thriller.  Read More >>

Early modern European festivals were the catalyst for the creation of many temporary and occasionally permanent...  Read More >>

Starting at the end of the First World War, this book follows Sir Hugh Trenchard's attempt to fend off disparaging...  Read More >>

The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ community Festivals like Mardi Gras...  Read More >>

The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ community Festivals like Mardi Gras...  Read More >>

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The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present...  Read More >>

Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition.  Read More >>