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Comparing visitor motivation and demographics between an insect festival and science festivals
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Gwen Pearson and Emily Justus
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 116, Issue 6, November 2023, Pages 376–385, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saad024
Published: 31 August 2023
...: [email protected]. 2023 This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Both science festivals and insect festivals have increased in frequency...
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Carnival, Sexual Violence and Harm at Australian Music Festivals
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Phillip Wadds and others
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab047
Published: 24 May 2021
... society, but relatively less attention has been paid to the harms experienced within this practice. Based on mixed-methods qualitative research including observational fieldwork at a large, multi-day camping festival in NSW, Australia, and in-depth interviews with victim-survivors of sexual violence...
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Critical Social Theory and the Politics of Narrative in the Mental Health Professions: The Mental Health Film Festival as an Emerging Postmodern Praxis
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Cassandra Hanrahan
The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 43, Issue 6, September 2013, Pages 1150–1169, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs041
Published: 11 April 2012
... therapeutic moments and informal social work. As with most film festivals serving equity-seeking groups where discourses are explored, affirmed and contested, opportunities for audience members to reposition themselves as cultural producers are of significant value for those who are mental health...
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The impact of Turkish military bands on European court festivals in the 17th and 18th centuries
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Edmund A. Bowles
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Early Music, Volume 34, Issue 4, November 2006, Pages 533–560, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cal103
Published: 01 November 2006
... the concept of the ‘Janissary’ band in their festivals of state. At first Turkish themes incorporated into these events featured musicians in Turkish dress, playing on conventional trumpets, shawms, drums and the like. Later, actual ensembles of Turkish musicians were imported. When tensions lessened during...
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Tobacco under Attack: Hello, “Heritage”
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Ann K. Ferrell
Published: 14 August 2013
... to the Kentucky farm economy and to the livelihoods of thousands of Kentucky farm families. The chapter ends with a discussion of tobacco “heritage” today; examples include public art, tobacco festivals, and media representations. heritage Kentucky Department of Agriculture newsletter Kirshenblatt Gimblett...
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Published: 08 November 2011
... flourishing, Clark worked hard to make sure everybody in the band got paid. The band hit the road, performed in jazz festivals in America, Europe, and even started to make plans to perform at Carnegie Hall. Big Bad Band CT's Harlem CT's activity in Henderson Skitch Hinton Milt “Judge” Jim and Andy's bar...
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Published: 23 August 2010
...This chapter describes the religious festivals and competitions that reward and encourage Islamic performance as an act of civic duty and patriotism. It argues that with the stamp of national authority superimposed upon a religious system which encompasses aesthetics, ideology, and praxis, agencies...
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The Finn
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Andrew Nestingen
Published: 25 June 2013
... by Mette Hjort, which emphasises the way film production is enhanced and broadened through institutional innovation and creative leadership. Kaurismäki has used the film festivals to advance Finnish cinema as a small-nation cinema, not only through the construction of his own reputation at the film...
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Documentary Filmmakers on the Circuit: A Festival Career from Czech Dream to Czech Peace
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Aida Vallejo
Published: 01 July 2015
...This chapter reflects on the role of film festivals as nodal points for the development of the documentary, in order to identify which powers influence and challenge its independent character. Taking the professional trajectory of Czech filmmakers Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda as a case study...
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Garlic Galore: Festival Inversion, Subversion, and the Enactment of Labor Relations
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Pauline Adema
Published: 06 January 2009
...This chapter analyzes major events at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, which include the Gilroy Garlic Queen Pageant, garlic braiding classes, and the garlic topping contest. It argues that as place-based food festival royalty, the Garlic Queen personifies the locality’s food–place association. She...
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Published: 06 January 2009
... of collective identity. The story of how Gilroy became a festive foodscape illustrates how branded place identities are shaped by history, zeitgeist, imagination, perception, culinary curiosity, and a quest for differentiation. food Americanization of Hannigan John place branding globalization Mitchell Don...
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You Can’t Go Down Home Again
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Ellen Willis
Published: 01 July 2012
...This chapter presents the author’s recollections about the 1968 Newport Folk Festival, describing the event as a failure. All weekend, the management was busy trying to manipulate a sullen audience and a bunch of equally hostile, if more reticent, performers. The problem can be traced less...
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Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning
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Ellen Willis
Published: 01 July 2012
...This chapter presents the author’s reflections about the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969. She attributes the festival’s success, despite the gross ineptitude of its organizers, to the 300,000 or more young people who were determined to have a good time no matter what. The accounts...
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Spiritual Assimilation: Namsan's Shintō Shrines and Their Festival Celebrations
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Todd A. Henry
Published: 15 February 2014
... official mandates of inclusion. Moreover, most Koreans experienced colonial Shintō through the spectacle of festival celebrations. Only from 1925 did they begin to visit the government's Korea Shrine, an uninviting complex that many continued to treat as a tourist site rather than a place of reverence...
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The Old Babylonian period, 2004–1595 bce
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Amanda H. Podany
Published: 19 December 2013
.... Amut pi El king of Qatna Babylon Eshnunna festivals religious gods and goddesses Inanna Ishtar goddess Ishtar Itur Asdu Old Babylonian period governor kingdoms vassal Larsa letters Old Babylonian period Qatna Sharmaneh Yamhad Zimri Lim king of Mari Amorite kings Ekallatum Elam...
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Published: 01 December 2012
...This chapter describes what Ashley refers to as “the glorious chaos of the 1960's,” tracing the rise and fall of the ONCE festivals as well as the various compositions he had worked on at the time, particularly his 1967 piece, That Morning Thing . Not only is it Ashley's most...
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LGBTQ Film Festivals and their Audiences
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Chris Perriam and Darren Waldron
Published: 01 July 2016
...The chapter covers the emergence and development of specific LGBTQ film festivals in France, Spain and the UK. The festivals studied are FIRE !! (Barcelona), LesGaiCineMad (Madrid), FICGLB (Barcelona), Zinegoak (Bilbao), Chéries-Chéris (Paris), Ecrans Mixtes (Lyon), Des Images aux mots (Toulouse...
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The Early Years of the Yau, Chan, and Fan Lineages in Tsuen Wan
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Elizabeth Lominska Johnson and Graham E. Johnson
Published: 15 November 2019
... Hongshenggong immigrants Kau Wai Kung markets village removals ancestor worship ancestral tombs Chan Man Tai Kung festivals lantern raising pork reservoirs village removals for Sha Tin Shek Lei Pui village unicorn dancing Country Village Store gambling men’s employment Texaco Oil Company...
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Published: 22 October 2020
... mestizo Cochabamba ix Departamento de Folklore mestizaje and MNR nationalist ideology Mexico Partido Revolucionario Institucional of Mexico PRI regionalism Concurso Folklórico Indígena del Departamento of 1948 Concurso Vernacular y Folklórico of 1945 Festival de Música y Danza Nativa festivals...
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1965: The Onset of the Folkloric Music Boom
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Fernando Rios
Published: 22 October 2020
... unexpected success at Argentina’s First Latin American Folklore Festival, the expansion of the local recording industry, the Bolivian state’s increased support for cultural tourism), and explaining the ways in which the Barrientos-Ovando administration’s populism resembled the approaches of the recently...
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