Pageants, parades, festivals books

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Debutantes and the London Season

Debutantes and the London Season

Author: Lucinda Gosling
ISBN: 9780747812197
Format: Paperback
$14.99

Until the middle of the last century, London's social calendar was dominated by 'the Season', a round of social...  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 >>

Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageants and Campus Life

Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageants and Campus Life

Author: Karen W. Tice (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Women's Studies and Educational Policy Studies, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780199842803
Format: Paperback
$66.95

Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased...  Read More >>

Carnival - Theory And Practise

Carnival - Theory And Practise

Author: Annabel Rutherford ,  Brigitte Bogar
ISBN: 9781592218493
Format: Paperback
$108.24

Celebrating Caribbean Carnival around the world.  Read More >>

The Calgary Stampede: A Collection of Vintage Postcards

The Calgary Stampede: A Collection of Vintage Postcards...

Author: Ken Tingley
ISBN: 9781927330005
Format: Hardback
$62.07

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The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People

The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People

Author: Harriet Atkinson (University of Brighton, UK) ,  Mary Banham
ISBN: 9781848857926
Format: Paperback
$49.99

With A Foreword by Mary Banham. The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged...  Read More >>

Chinese Festivals - Chinese Red

Chinese Festivals - Chinese Red

Author: Jiang Lijun
ISBN: 9787546126531
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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Live & Local: A Study of U.S. Outdoor Arts Festivals

Live & Local: A Study of U.S. Outdoor Arts Festivals...

Author: Regina G Meyer
ISBN: 9781612098258
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Examines US' outdoor arts festivals and identifies their shared and divergent traits, considering factors such as...  Read More >>

'Tis Sixty Years Since: The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival

'Tis Sixty Years Since: The 1951 Edinburgh People's...

Author: Eberhard Bort ,  Hamish Henderson
ISBN: 9781907676109
Format: Paperback
$20.70

This publication commemorates the 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and collects views and perspectives on...  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: 9780719080104
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Pageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern...  Read More >>

Explosions in November: The first 33 years of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Explosions in November: The first 33 years of Huddersfield...

Author: Professor Richard Steinitz
ISBN: 9781862180994
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Explosions in November tells the story of one of Europes leading cultural institutions, Huddersfield Contemporary...  Read More >>

Festival Annual 11

Festival Annual 11

Author: Josh Jones ,  Frank Lampen
ISBN: 9780956302229
Format: Hardback
$51.62

Festival Annual is made for festival veterans and newcomers alike, and its 312 pages of beautiful photography are...  Read More >>

The Frog Princess

The Frog Princess

Author: Angie Beasley
ISBN: 9780718158316
Format: Paperback
$26.99

With few jobs around, bland food and cold weather, the best that the author could hope for was a job at the local...  Read More >>

The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years

The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years

Author: L. W. Conolly
ISBN: 9780195446111
Format: Hardback
$132.00

On a warm, humid night in June of 1962, four amateur actors sat on stools in the Court House of Niagara-on-the-Lake...  Read More >>

Elvis Romero & Fiesta De Santa Fe: Featuring Zozobra's Great Escape

Elvis Romero & Fiesta De Santa Fe: Featuring Zozobra's...

Author: Andrew Leo Lovato
ISBN: 9780890135327
Format: Hardback
$59.40

For three centuries, the Fiesta de Santa Fe has commemorated historical events including the Spanish reconquest...  Read More >>

Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic

Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic

Author: James H. Johnson
ISBN: 9780520267718
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Offers an analysis of masking in Venice city. This title explores the world view of maskers, both during and outside...  Read More >>

Festival Annual 10

Festival Annual 10

Author: Frank Lampen ,  Josh Jones
ISBN: 9780956302212
Format: Hardback
$114.18

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Blues in Black and White: The Landmark Ann Arbor Blues Festivals

Blues in Black and White: The Landmark Ann Arbor Blues...

Author: Michael Erlewine ,  Stanley Livingston
ISBN: 9780472116959
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In 1969 and 1970, the first Ann Arbor Blues Festivals brought together the greatest-ever selection of blues performers...  Read More >>

Passion Play 2010 Oberammergau

Passion Play 2010 Oberammergau

Author: Otto Huber ,  Christian Stuckl
ISBN: 9783791350257
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Heartland of Divinity: Fairs & Festivals of Madhya Pradesh

Heartland of Divinity: Fairs & Festivals of Madhya Pradesh...

Author: Aruna Sharma
ISBN: 9788183281584
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere...

Author: Clodagh J. Brook
ISBN: 9780802097101
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition...  Read More >>

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