Renaissance festivals
Subtitle: merrying the past and present
By: Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans.
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780786440146
Subjects: Carnivals -- United States; Festivals -- United States
Description: This is an ethnographic study of contemporary American Renaissance fairs, focusing on the Maryland Renaissance Festival, in which participants recreate sixteenth-century England through performances of theater, combat-at-arms, processions, street hawking, and meticulously faithful historical reconstructions--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeking the new in the old: the contemporary American Renaissance festival; title: Carnival setting, cultural work; title: A stroll through the sensescape of the MDRF; title: Living history at the MDRF: performing embodied knowledge; title: Historical elaboration: a royal day in revel grove; title: Performers, patrons, and playtrons : interactions and interfaces in the intrastice; title: Afterword: the beer is in the pick-up truck ; or, put down the accent, step away from the character and nobody gets hurt!