Theatre & festivals

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Carnival and other Christian festivals
With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theatre and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colourful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations remain vibrant in the high-tech culture of the twenty-first century strongly suggests that they also provide an indispensable vehicle for expressing hopes, fears, and desires that people can articulate in no other way.

Theatre and Festivals
This succinct and engaging text rethinks the common wisdom that festivals, sites of collective celebration and play, provide a temporary reprieve from the grind of everyday, 'real' life. Keren Zaiontz explores the ways in which cultural performances of resistance that have their basis in festivals can migrate to other contexts, making festivals as much the domain of free markets and state power as that of vanguard artists and progressive social movements.

Festivals

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