Mexico has a vast range of festivals, several commemorating national events but mostly religious or spiritual in inspiration. This book shows what makes these festivities so attractive and also uniquely Mexican. It draws on the author's travels in Mexico and the collections she has helped create in the British Museum.

Old habits die hard in Scotland. This guide to Scotland's annual festivals includes festivals ranging Up-Helly-Aa in Shetland to the Burning of the Clavie in Burghead, from the Stonehaven Fireballs to South Queensferry's Burry Man.

Chronicles the NYC gay parade from the informal, spontaneous ritual held soon after the Stonewall Riots up to the orchestrated, glamorous parades of the 80s. An introduction puts the photographs in context with the events preceeding and following the parade, making this book useful for NYC, gays, and gay parade.

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Covering events ranging from the Welsh institution of the National Eisteddfod with all sorts of cultural competitions taking centre stage, to places like The Royal Welsh agricultural show, The Abergavenny Food Festival, The Big Cheese, Woodfest, Y Faenol and the Brecon Jazz Festival, this is the insider's guide to the festivals of Wales.

A comprehensive directory of different events in the UK and across Europe. It features: useful tips for places to camp, swim, walk, eat and drink when the festival is over; games to play all summer long, from toe-wrestling to human snail races; and, recipes for refreshing cocktails and delicious festival food.

Examines the freak show performance tradition, using meticulous historical research and cultural criticism to change the way we understand both performance and disability.

Britain has something for different musical tastes, with some big names in music rocking the stages at the Glastonbury, Reading and V festivals, and a chilled hippy vibe at the Green Man festival and edgy beats blasting out of Creamfields. This guide provides information on the various events in the country.

In over 140 full colour images, renownedphotographer Ed Swinden, captures theexcitement colour and vibrancy of thisunique occasion.The Halsgrove Group includes DAA Halsgrove.

In a unique cultural statement, Kaapse Klopse features the colourful and lively Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, held for the first three days of the New Year. This book features contemporary photographs of this event, with an historical overview as well as photographs of District Six and Bo-Kaap, taken by the author in 1969.

Featuring several retro photos from different eras of the beauty pageant, this compendium is suitable for girls of all ages. It contains chapters on history, fashion, and talent competitions, along with sections on the emcee, tiara, congeniality, and more. It is a tribute to the glitz and glory of beauty pageants across the globe.

The dazzling masquerade of New Orleans' Mardi Gras opens its arms wide, dances, and flaunts, full colour and full page, in this book. McCaffety takes the art of portrait photography to North America's biggest costume party. A photographer with an anthropology degree who has recorded cultures all over the world, she returns to her hometown to capture the spirit of New Orleans' masquerade with a ...

Here is the fascinating though ofttimes shady history of the medicine show, an American show-business institution that dispensed hoopla and nostrums to a credulous clientele. When medicine shows died out, the nation lost one of its most rollicking entertainments.

Preston Guild, the last survivor of medieval Guilds Merchant - still takes place every 20 years and is one of England's greatest carnivals. This new book looks at the history and development of the Guild since 1179 in a thematic and analytical way.

A collection of familiar festive songs performed by artists from all over the globe. Includes Flamenco and Cuban music.

If you're responsible for organising a voluntary or public event, you will want it to go safely and well. This book helps you to research, plan, organise, manage and deliver any event, match, show, tournament or function that will be attended by more than a handful of people.

This national guide covers over 300 Main Street communities across America and more than 700 special events happening on these Main Streets throughout the year - from Rodeo Stampedes to fruit festivals to winter carnivals.

Cheerleading is not just dance, acrobatics, speechsong and spectacle; it is above all a team sport requiring a lot of hard work. But anyone who has been touched by the Spirit finds it hard to give it up. This book explains what it's all about. Starting with warm-up and stretching, then moving onto jumps, cheers and chants and finally dance, this book contains all the information you need to set ..

Full of seasonal stories, activities, crafts, poems and recipes, this book offers a guide to celebrating festivals throughout the seasons. A sequel to The Children's Year , the book arises from the festivals workshops run by the authors at the annual Lifeways Conference at Emerson College.