Parade: Giants & Big Heads
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Catalonia / 3.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2018 June 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2018, Item SFF2018_0628_Catalonia_Placa_Major_0003
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Mar Rodrigo Salse; Associacio de Geganters I Grallers d'Oliana; David Nuñez Orrit; Jesús Bach Marqués; Josep Maria Viladrich Jounou; Pau Jounou Coma; Federació Agrupació de Colles de Geganters de Catalunya; Àlex García-Miguel Ricart; Clàudia Abellán Sebastià; Valentin Serra Jubero; Xavier Barnadas Figueras; Diables d'Igualada; Frederic Marimon Muñoz; Joan Josep Romero Ramon; Jose Bros Bros; Santiago Carbonell Siles; During Catalan festivals, all sorts of creatures march down parades-- even giants and devils. The symbols these creatures represent may surprise you. A slow, graceful gait of a giant evokes the refinement of a King. Devils, typically associated with doom in the United States, carry fireworks not to cause havoc, but to disrupt everyday mundanity. Expand your imagination and watch giants, devils, and other figures march down the plaça major.