Thesis (M.M.)--Boston University / The purpose of this study was: (1) to examine the educational justification for the school music festival; (2) to examine the organizational structure of school music festivals in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and (3) to ascertain the extent to which the school music festivals of Massachusetts were realizing intended values and purposes. For the purpose of this study, data ware collected through the technique of the questionnaire. A list of factors relating to the philosophy and organization of music contests and festivals was compiled from many published and unpublished materials, and was incorporated into the questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of four parts. Part I was concerned with acquiring general information relative to the respondant music educators experience of participation at the school music festivals of Massachusetts. Part II was concerned with the factors related to the District Massachusetts Music Festival. Part III was concerned with the factors related to the Massachusetts All-State and District Concert Festivals . In Part IV the factors related to the areas of concern in the Massachusetts music festivals were presented. The questionnaire was distributed to one hundred and thirty music educators. Fifty-seven of the questionnaires returned were included in this study. [TRUNCATED]

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Existing studies of festivity in the Third Reich have focused on its role as an effective instrument of social integration and control; that is, festivals are interpreted either as a form of propaganda or as an outward manifestation of a secular religion. Such approaches, while advancing our understanding of public celebration in Nazi Germany, fail to take into account the festival experience as a form of popular culture that mediated between the complex forces binding state, economy, and society. Fundamental to this process was the role played by modern technology. In its efforts to involve all Germans in the public celebration of the 'national community', the NSDAP exploited the technical resources of the highly industrialized German state to such an extent that the modern world of technology came to redefine the context of popular festivity in the Third Reich. As an expression of forwardlooking nationalist aspirations, however, the Nazi version of the modern festival experience ultimately clashed with the diverse festival cultures already embedded in German society. The thesis is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the formalization of festivity as a dynamic expression of a formalization ethnically and culturally pure society organized according to the nationalist military ethos of Nazism. Drawing on various public opinion reports gathered by Nazi and state agencies as well as the underground network of the exiled SPD, Chapters 2 and 5 reconstruct the popular response to Nazi attempts to extend organizational control into all areas of public celebration. Ranging from widespread enthusiasm to open dissent, the diversity of popular attitudes vis-a-vis Nazi festivity conforms to the image of a modern, pluralistic society, within whose public arena Germans selected or reJected aspects of festivity according to their individual political, social, economic and cultural needs. Traditional folk festivals as a form of consumer-oriented popular culture, and Nazi attempts to transform this cultural sphere, is the focus of chapter 3. Chapter 4 examines the functional appeal of the festival industry to a Nazi state determined to alleviate Depression conditions and thereby reinforce its legitimacy. The final chapter, extending many of these themes into the war period, argues that only in the context of a deteriorating war situation did the Nazi state attempt to institutionalize its 'totalitarian' form of social control with respect to the festival and ceremonial. At the same time, however, it suggests that the ultimate failure of an increasingly isolated Nazi administration to recast the culture of celebration and ceremony owed as much to the monumental success of the Nazi festival style before 1939 as it did to the severe restrictions on material and human resources and the declining public morale that accompanied the war. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Hong Jiachun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-108). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Spring Festival --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Spring Festival Gala --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- The Spring Festival Gala as a media event --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- Approaches to media events --- p.5 / Chapter 1.5 --- The approach in present study --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Studies on media events --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Studies on the Spring Festival Gala --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3 --- "Studies on gratification, festivity, and national integration" --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Research Question --- p.25 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Methodology --- p.29 / Chapter 4.1 --- Village of West Port (Fu Xi) --- p.28 / Chapter 4.2 --- Sampling methods --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3 --- Interview --- p.32 / Chapter 4.4 --- Diary --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Social Use of the Gala --- p.36 / Chapter 5.1 --- Environmental use of the Gala --- p.37 / Chapter 5.2 --- Regulative use of the Gala --- p.44 / Chapter 5.3 --- Conclusion --- p.53 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- The Gala as Televised Festivity --- p.57 / Chapter 6.1 --- Four stages of Spring Festival celebration --- p.57 / Chapter 6.2 --- Material ingredients of festivity --- p.62 / Chapter 6.3 --- Spiritual ingredients of festivity --- p.68 / Chapter 6.4 --- Conclusion --- p.73 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- The Gala as National Integration --- p.76 / Chapter 7.1 --- National integration of the televised festival --- p.77 / Chapter 7.2 --- National integration of the pre-televised festival --- p.86 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Conclusion --- p.94 / References --- p.102

Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-171). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

Thesis--1979. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-324) and index.

The thesis deals with the analysis of cultural tourism and folklore festivals. Its goal is to characterize cultural tourism and festivals and to evaluate their position in the Czech republic and Slovakia. One part of the thesis deals with the analysis of Folklore Festival Východná and International Folklore Festival Strážnice. In conclusion the SWOT analysis of folklore festivals is conducted, festivals are compared, and measures for the next development are suggested.

Trata-se, nesta pesquisa, de entender a história da festa carnavalesca segundo três de seus momentos principais: há, inicialmente, a festa como central idade de conteúdos precários, limitados e locais - como foram os carnavais medievais -; a seguir, fundada pela burguesia numa ação verdadeiramente mundial, entra em foco a centralidade urbano-festiva rica, complexa e eventualmente descontrolada dos carnavais do século XIX e começo do século XX; por fim, em compasso com as amplas transformações do espaço-tempo social, ocorridas na segunda metade do século XX e promovidas pelo novo determinismo do mundo da economia, há o surgimento do pseudocentro carnavalesco: sob o peso das abstrações mercantis que transformam os modos de vida, a festa deteriora-se. No entanto, este não é o fim de sua história. A retomada da festa, posta no horizonte como possibilidade, é também a retomada da atividade humana em seu sentido fundamental: o uso. Uso das coisas, do corpo, do tempo, do espaço, do desejo . / This research intends to understand the history of the carnival according to three of its mains moments. There is, initially the party as a centrality of impromptu content, limited and local as was the medieval carnival. Then, founded by the bourgeoisie in a truly world wide action, comes an urban-festive centrality, rich, complex and eventually uncontrollable: the 19th century carnival. Finally, following the broad transformations of the social space-time in the second half of the 20th century and promoted by the new determinism of a economy based world, there is the beginning of the carnival pseudo centre: under the burden of the mercantile abstractions that change the way of life, the party deteriorates. However, this is not the end of its history. The reappearance of the party, as a possibility, is also the coming back of human activity in its fundamental sense: the use. Use of things, of the body, of time, of space of desire.