Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities

ISBN-13: 9780367186760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 214 str.

Ullrich Kockel; Cristina Clopot; Baiba Tjarve

Opis

Heritage and Festivals in Europe critically investigates the purpose, reach and effects of heritage festivals.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Heritages, identities and Europe: exploring cultural forms and expressions  2. On the relationship between performance and intangible cultural heritage  3. Comparative aspects of the Song and Dance Celebration of the Baltic countries in the context of nation branding processes  4. The construction of belonging and Otherness in heritage events  5. Nostalgic festivals: the case of Cappadox  6. Events that want to become heritage: vernacularisation of ICH and the politics of culture and identity in European public rituals  7. Performing identities and communicating ICH: from local to international strategies  8. Memory, pride and politics on Parade: the Durham Miners’ Gala  9. Sound Structure as political structure in the European folk festival orchestra La Banda Europa  10. Performing Scots-European heritage, ‘For A’ That!’  11. European Capitals of Culture: discourses of Europeanness in Valletta, Plovdiv and Galway  12. Negotiating contested heritages through theatre and storytelling  13. Commemorating vanished ‘homelands’: displaced Germans and their Heimat Europa  Afterword: festival as heritage / heritage as festival