Pageants, parades, festivals books

295 books were found.

The Sister Rice Festival

The Sister Rice Festival

Author: Li Song
ISBN: 9781844644308
Format: Hardback
$124.20

The Sister Rice Festival is a big day for Miao people in China. The Miao people exchange gifts and bid well-wishes...  Read More >>

The Peony Festival

The Peony Festival

Author: Li Song
ISBN: 9781844644261
Format: Hardback
$124.20

The Peony Festival originates from Luoyang, Henan Province of China and is a global carnival gathering all kinds...  Read More >>

Chinese Festival Culture Series (10 volumes)

Chinese Festival Culture Series (10 volumes)

Author: Li Song ,  Li Song
ISBN: 9781844644384
Format: Hardback
$1900.80

China is an ancient culture but it is also a diverse culture and this series of ten books celebrate the diversity...  Read More >>

Focus On Festivals: Contemporary European case studies and perspectives

Focus On Festivals: Contemporary European case studies...

Author: Chris Newbold (School of Arts, De Montfort University, UK) ,  Christopher Maughan (freelance writer and researcher, UK)
ISBN: 9781910158166
Format: Paperback
$95.71

A powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach of our most ubiquitous...  Read More >>

Focus On Festivals: Contemporary European case studies and perspectives

Focus On Festivals: Contemporary European case studies...

Author: Chris Newbold (School of Arts, De Montfort University, UK) ,  Christopher Maughan (freelance writer and researcher, UK)
ISBN: 9781910158159
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach of our most ubiquitous...  Read More >>

All Dressed Up: Modern Irish Historical Pageantry

All Dressed Up: Modern Irish Historical Pageantry

Author: Joan FitzPatrick Dean
ISBN: 9780815633747
Format: Hardback
$105.47

In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious...  Read More >>

Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain

Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain

Author: Kate Shindle
ISBN: 9780292739215
Format: Hardback
$45.95

Kate Shindle weaves an engrossing memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a fascinating, insightful history...  Read More >>

Playa Dust: Collected Stories from Burning Man

Playa Dust: Collected Stories from Burning Man

Author: Samantha Krukowski
ISBN: 9781908966643
Format: Paperback
$43.86

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The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain

The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war...

Author: Angela Bartie
ISBN: 9780748670307
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book explores the `culture wars’ of 1945-1970 and is the first major study of the origins and development of...  Read More >>

Cyfansoddiadau a Beirniadaethau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Sir Gar 2014

Cyfansoddiadau a Beirniadaethau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol...

Author:
ISBN: 9780957693531
Format: Paperback
$23.29

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Cawnpore to Cromar: The MacRoberts of Douneside

Cawnpore to Cromar: The MacRoberts of Douneside

Author: Marion Miller
ISBN: 9781909238091
Format: Paperback
$33.61

In WW II, Rachel MacRobert's personal challenge to the Nazis helped inspire the British public to battle on. Mourning...  Read More >>

Carnival and Culture: Sex, Symbol, and Status in Spain

Carnival and Culture: Sex, Symbol, and Status in Spain...

Author: David D. Gilmore
ISBN: 9780300209051
Format: Paperback
$36.95

Each year in the weeks preceding the deprivations of Lent, the Andalusian region of southern Spain erupts into madcap...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain

The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war...

Author: Angela Bartie
ISBN: 9780748694051
Format: Paperback
$62.07

The Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival. It has also been the site of numerous 'culture wars'...  Read More >>

Cherry Blossoms: The Official Book of the National Cherry Blossom Festival

Cherry Blossoms: The Official Book of the National Cherry...

Author: Ann McClellan ,  Ron Blunt
ISBN: 9781426213434
Format: Paperback
$39.99

This captivating keepsake book is filled with beautiful photographs, an overview of events and activities, and memorable...  Read More >>

Festivals in Focus

Festivals in Focus

Author: Dragan Klaic
ISBN: 9789630879408
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen

Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian...

Author: Sabrina Billings
ISBN: 9781783090747
Format: Paperback
$77.50

This book uses a micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants to address structural inequalities,...  Read More >>

Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen

Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian...

Author: Sabrina Billings
ISBN: 9781783090754
Format: Hardback
$258.62

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Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J.R. Mulryne

Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance:...

Author: Margaret Shewring ,  Linda Briggs
ISBN: 9781409400233
Format: Hardback
$305.00

As the first book-length study of waterborne festivities in Renaissance and early modern Europe, this collection...  Read More >>

Puck Fair: A History

Puck Fair: A History

Author: Sean Moraghan
ISBN: 9781845888008
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Puck Fair, Ireland's oldest festival, was established by a royal patent in October 1613, granted to the Welsh planter,...  Read More >>

Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639

Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early...

Author: Tracey Hill ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719090127
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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Welcome Home, Boys!: Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946

Welcome Home, Boys!: Military Victory Parades in New...

Author: Sebastian Jobs
ISBN: 9783593397450
Format: Paperback
$85.95

During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the...  Read More >>

Glastonbury Festival Myths and Legends

Glastonbury Festival Myths and Legends

Author: Marc Leverton ,  Richard Jones
ISBN: 9781906477868
Format: Paperback
$15.50

Anecdotes, myths, rumours and legends have become part of the folklore surrounding the Glastonbury. Marc Leverton...  Read More >>

Travelling Daze: Words and Images from the UK's New Travellers and Festivals, Late 1960s to the Here and Now

Travelling Daze: Words and Images from the UK's New...

Author: Alan Dearling ,  Alan Dearling
ISBN: 9780952331698
Format: Paperback
$42.69

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The Great Dorset Steam Fair

The Great Dorset Steam Fair

Author: Paul Stratford
ISBN: 9780857041623
Format: Hardback
$38.79

Throughout the summer months on most weekends around the country there are numerous traction engine rallies. But...  Read More >>

Eisteddfod

Eisteddfod

Author: Jesse Russell ,  Ronald Cohn
ISBN: 9785510892666
Format: Paperback
$52.67

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An eisteddfod (Welsh:; plural eisteddfodau ) is a Welsh festival of...  Read More >>

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