American Festival Research Articles

Finnish or Finnish American Food? A Comparison of Food Cultures among Finnish Americans in Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, and Washington

Abstract This article examines the heritagization of certain foods as Finnish American foods. By comparing certain Finnish American festivals with the Finnish and Finnish American community in Florida, the article aims to showcase which foods are considered to be Finnish American today. By comparing the foods served at Finnish American festivals in Minnesota, Michigan, Washington with the foods eaten in Florida, the authors are able to limit the regional traditions and find out which foods are seen as important for Finnish American culture, or, in other words, what foods are seen as part of Finnish American heritage.

Profitability Analysis of Strawberry Cultivation In Selected Locations of Bangladesh

The study was conducted in strawberry growing areas namely, Joypurhat and Rajshahi districts to examine the profitability of strawberry cultivation in Bangladesh. A total of 100 strawberry growing farmers were randomly selected for this study. Descriptive statistics and Cobb-Douglas (profit) function were used to analyze data. In the farm level 63% of the farmers’ cultivated strawberry in medium high land and majority of them mentioned the soil of their strawberry field was sandy loam (54%) and loam (35%). American Festival and Rabi-3 were found cultivating in the study areas. They performed some intercultural operations like weeding, spraying, and irrigating the crop. Per hectare cost of producing strawberry was estimated at Tk. 7, 30,811 and sapling cost was the major cost item which covered about 37% of total cost. Per hectare net return from strawberry cultivation were found Tk. 15, 57,355 and BCR was 3.13 which indicates strawberry cultivation is highly profitable. Farmers’ experience had positive and cost of hired labour, sapling and chemicals had negative influence on the profitability from strawberry farming. From the results of SWOT analysis it is observed that though it has strength and opportunities of cultivation in Bangladesh, it also has some weaknesses and threats. If the shortcomings are overcome, it is possible to increase strawberry cultivation in Bangladesh.
 Bangladesh J. Agril. Res. 45(1): 29-42, March 2020

The profane sphere of All Saints’ Day and the social aspects of cemeteries

The modern pop-culturization of All Saints’ Day has encouraged the author to explore the profane sphere of this festival, using selected examples from Łódź cemeteries, as well as to write a short comparative description of a Latin American festival honouring the dead celebrated in early November. In the 20th century, visiting cemeteries in Poland on 1st November acquired some attributes of recreation and cultural tourism, visible in the atmosphere of a country fair and the ludic character of the cemetery surroundings, as well as the visitors’ commemorative, contemplative and cognitive motivations. Due to cultural changes, All Saints’ Day is increasingly perceived as a tourist event or even a cultural tourism product. The article presents a comparative description of the All Saints’ Day celebrations in Poland and the Day of the Dead in Latin America, and an analysis of visitors at selected Łódź cemeteries along with a description of the cemetery surroundings on 1st November 2019. The author has used unpublished research results from 2004, as well as discussing the secular and recreational aspects of All Saints’ Day.

Polish American festivals and ethnic identity

ABSTRACT After examining the concept of festivals as ethnic practice and the scholarship on ethnic and heritage festivals among various ethnic groups in the US, including Cajuns and Czech, Scottish and German Americans, this paper utilizes a survey of Polish American festival organizers as well as public descriptions of Polish American festivals to determine why festival activists organize their events, what image of Polish American identity they try to project through their festivals, and how they account for issues of authenticity as Polish American neighborhoods continue to decline and the community becomes more diffused.

Jonathan R. Wynn, Music/City. American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville and Newport

Jonathan R. Wynn, Music/City. American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville and Newport

From cultural showcases to public diplomacy agents: Basque-American festivals in the United States

ABSTRACTBasque festivals in the United States have a long history. Among the festivals organized, there are festivals with different objectives. The objective of the first festivals was to unite the Basque community in the United States, as some Basques were from the Spanish side of the Basque Country and others from the French side, the objective was to unite all of them as Basques to a one-time two day festival to celebrate together and meet each other. The Western Basque Festival organized in 1959 in Sparks is an example of this. Annual Basque National Festival in Elko also wanted to have an internal joint celebration: still not focused on inviting non-Basques, but yes promoting positive image to Elko Basques. Inter-community Basque festivals have a history of over 100 years with Basques in New York in the early 1900s and western Basques since the 1920s. After that, ones Basques were united and almost settled in the United States, they started organizing festivals with another objective: invite the non Basque public and be accepted in the American society. The Boise Jaialdi Festival and Smithsonian Folklife Festival break the mould by specifically inviting the non-Basque public. What we would like to show with this research is how Basques and Basque American festivals, thanks to Public Relation activities as the festivals organized in the United States, have become public diplomacy agents and help in the relations between the United States and the Basque Country.

Composer and Theorist Joel Mandelbaum on Microtonality

Mr. Mandelbaum (b. 1932) is a highly educated, skillful composer who writes in a clear, tuneful, and accessible tonal style to which the use of microtones add an original and fascinating flavor. Unfortunately, his music, such as his important, much-acclaimed operas on Jewish subjects, is all but unavailable on recordings. Of his microtonal music, only a short electronic work in 31- tone equal temperament is available on CD (“Andante cantabile” on the compilation “Electronical,” American Festival of Microtonal Music – Pitch P-200208).Among microtonal composers and scholars of tuning systems, Joel Mandelbaum is widely known for his seminal dissertation “Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of the 19-tone Equal Temperament” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Indiana, 1961; available online at http://anaphoria.com/mandelbaum.html). Publishing this 1994 interview now makes available a fine short introduction to a remarkable microtonal composer and theorist, and two of the most important and popular microtonal tuning systems: 19 and 31 equal divisions of the octave. After his most illuminating talk, Mr. Mandelbaum demonstrated various intervals and tunings on his famous Motorola Scalatron, an early digitally retunable electronic organ, which at the time was still in working condition. Keywords: microtonality, Joel Mandelbaum, microtonal composers.

Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Festivals and Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America, 1492–1850: Papers from the 2012 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum

The eight papers in this volume are a welcome addition to the growing literature on festivals, domestic life, and material culture in colonial Latin America. Several of the papers are primarily descriptive, though thoroughly researched. The foreword does not provide much of an interpretive framework for the selection of papers, which are simply divided into two groups: the first dealing with festivals and the second with daily life. It is, however, possible to divide the papers into two groups based on the types of sources the scholars consult and privilege, and the sorts of discourses they identify. The first group identifies the hegemonic narratives expressed by Spanish governors and culture makers in the New World. The second group of papers, likely of more interest to the readers of this journal, delves into more complicated territory and searches for the subaltern and hybrid narratives embedded in colonial and national discourses and expressed in festivals and other forms of visual culture.The papers in the first group rely largely on written reports and visual records created by Spaniards and creoles to document events occurring in the New World colonies; often these records were created to be sent back to Spain. Gustavo Curiel catalogues the extensive mourning rites held in Mexico City to observe the death of Philip IV in 1665, which he asserts were calculated to express utmost loyalty and defend the interest of the Crown. Beatriz Berndt shows that similar sentiments were articulated more than a century later, when government buildings of the same city were outfitted with temporary facades to celebrate the accession of the new king, Charles IV of Bourbon. While other recent scholarship on Spanish American festivals has identified the specifically “Habsburg” and “Bourbon” characteristics of these pageants, the aforementioned selections as well as Kelly Donahue-Wallace’s chapter on festivals held by the Royal Academy of San Carlos (founded in 1783) show that there was a shared festival culture throughout the colonial period. Even Enlightenment institutions like the Academy, created with the intent to reform the art of Mexico in favor of a more classical (and less baroque) style, harkened back to previous state-sponsored festivals for legitimacy. More local festivals, such as those dedicated to St. Joseph the patriarch in Puebla, Mexico, were also calculated to bolster the legitimacy of the colonial government, as is shown by Frances Ramos. In the arena of fashion or vernacular dress, Susan Socolow shows that women’s clothing in Buenos Aires followed European norms and reflected colonial social hierarchies. Yet she declines to problematize the notion of fashion, which could be juxtaposed with the perceived “traditional” nature of indigenous dress.The second group of papers does go further, first with Barbara Mundy’s foray into the indigenous dances, or mitotes, performed at religious and civic events in early colonial Mexico City. As illustrated in the Tlatelolco Codex (ca. 1560), such dances were even performed at the jura, or oath of allegiance to the king of Spain (specifically that made to Philip II in 1557). Dancers wore feathered costumes redolent with pre-Hispanic associations and danced in the name of indigenous elites who jockeyed for power under colonial rule. Yet the costumes had been altered from their earlier forms, and their meanings were also altered by the new colonial situation in which they operated. Such was also the case with the butaca, a hybrid invention in domestic furniture that Jorge Rivas-Pérez shows was based on both the pre-Columbian Caribbean stool (duho) and the Spanish folding chair (silla de caderas). The ritual and authoritarian associations of the earlier seats largely fell away, while the form of the low inclined chair took on connotations of domestic ease in the colonial environment. Lastly, Alexandra Kennedy-Troya’s article delves into the meanings of costumbrista illustration (images of indigenous “types” in typical dress) in the post-independence era. She contrasts the original, nineteenth-century meanings of a set of watercolors with their probable significance as a collection in the early twentieth century. She asserts that the illustrations no longer served as souvenirs of a past (colonial) era but became elements of a burgeoning national identity that attempted to recognize and rectify the status of indigenous peoples.

Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville by Jeremy Hill, and: Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport by Jonathan R. Wynn, and: Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville by Daniel B. Cornfield

COUNTRY AND PLACEMAKING Country Comes to Town: The Industry and Transformation of Nashville. By Jeremy Hill. (American Popular Music.) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. [ix, 173 p. ISBN 9781625341716 (hardcover), $90; ISBN 9781625341723 (paperback), $26.95.] Notes, index.Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport. By Jonathan R. Wynn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. [vii, 312 p. ISBN 9780226305493 (hardcover), $90; ISBN 9780226305523 (paperback), $30; ISBN 9780226305660 (e-book), various.] Appendices, notes, bibliography, index.Beyond Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville. By Daniel B. Cornfield. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. [xiii, 218 p. ISBN 9780691160733 (hardcover), $35; ISBN 9781400873890 (e-book), various.] Appendix, notes, bibliography, index.In his 2002 book The Rise of Creative Class, sociologist Richard Florida proffered a provocative thesis: that places that attract creative people-people in science and engineering, architecture and design, education, arts, music, and entertainment whose economic function is to create new ideas, new technology, and new creative content-would be economic leaders in new century (Richard Florida, The Rise of Creative Class [New York: Basic Books, 2002], 8). In decade and a half since its publication, Florida's thesis has been scrutinized widely by sociologists, economists, and other scholars, with several scholars and press challenging Florida's sometimes Pollyannaish outlook and drawing attention to challenges that emerge when economic leaders recruit the creative class to join their communities. But, until recently, musical communities have not been focus of significant analysis in light of Florida's thesis, despite their prominence in Florida's enumeration. The three books under consideration in this review essay, however, provide valuable new insights into ways that musical communities transform local economies and, conversely, how city residents respond to these communities in their midst.Nashville, Tennessee-known to many music tourists as Music City, U.S.A.- serves as an excellent site for scholars to study ways that musicians and various industries that support them intersect with other spheres of social, economic, and political activity in city. Long a seat of government power, city is probably best known for its role as one of premier centers of global commercial country music production, a role that it began to cultivate deliberately in 1960s as recording studios, music publishing houses, booking agents, and trade organizations began to call Nashville home. As a number of country music scholars have demonstrated, though, country music-and, in fact, popular music more generally-was not always linked closely with city, and such cities as Atlanta, Charlotte, and even Chicago could easily be considered to be leading centers of country music production prior to 1950s (see, for instance, Wayne W. Daniel, Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country in Atlanta [Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990]; and Patrick Huber, Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country in Piedmont South [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008]). But, as Diane Pecknold has shown in her frequently-cited book The Selling Sound: The Rise of Country Industry (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), Nashville eclipsed others during 1960s as newly formed Country Association launched a coordinated effort to promote city's music industry infrastructure and talents, as well as products that emerged from recording studios along Row.American studies scholar Jeremy Hill's Country Comes to Town: The Industry and Transformation of Nashville extends Pecknold's work by focusing not on industry itself (although plenty of familiar Nashville music industry leaders appear as significant figures in study), but by exploring dynamics of developing relationship between music industry, Nashville residents, and government and business leaders. …

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Fifth National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival

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The Comparison Between Chinese and American Festivals

Every country has its own traditional festivals, celebrated by all kinds of activities. In China, the most important festival is the Spring Festival, while in America, the most important festival is Christmas. Festival differences exist between China and America. With time elapsing, festival culture changes gradually and some new cultural phenomenon occurs.

‘There are differences’: Variants and Errors in the Texts of Beckett's Radio Plays

As opposed to Beckett's drama and, to a lesser degree, his television plays, the six scripts he wrote for radio are generally considered to be a textually stable category in his body of work. The only well-known exception is Cascando, whose American and British first editions were distinguished by more than fifty variants. When Everett Frost confronted the author with the Grove and Faber versions of the text in 1987, to re-record them for an American Festival of his radio plays, Beckett admitted ‘there are differences’ and advised the producer to follow the Faber example. Three years earlier, Beckett's English-language publishers had made the same choice for their joint publication of the Collected Shorter Plays (1984), when Grove discarded their texts of the radio plays for the Faber alternatives. But, not only were the American texts generally more reliable, they sometimes contained unique variants as well. Unproofed by the author, CSP added several new mistakes to the ones still surviving from the British first editions and their later reprints. This is problematic as CSP continued to serve as the model for Grove's Centenary Edition (2006) and Faber's All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen (2009). While its editor, Everett Frost, has ‘made every effort silently to correct minor flaws appearing in earlier editions, no attempt has been made to impose a rigorous consistency upon such diverse materials’. Building on Frost's work, this article compares all English editions with each other, as well as the typescripts on which they were based, to provide an overview of variants and errors for each text. The purpose is to show that Cascando is not the only one marked by differences, and that a study of the existing drafts is necessary to fully understand the publishing history of the radio plays.

Freezing adaptability and chemical composition of Strawberry (Fragaria X ananassa Duch.) in Bangladesh

The physiological weight loss of Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa ) in different media showed that in ambient temperature, 40% sugar solution(A T) media, has the highest shelf life and it is 8 days. The pulp prepared from RABI-3 and American Festival variety can be preserved for 120 days. The composition of quality parameters were reduced very little (after 120 days) i.e. reduced amount is very low. In RABI-3, Moisture content were 37.63%, TS 62.37% , pH 3.21, TSS 61.8% total sugar 54.2%, reducing sugar 18.01%, non reducing sugar 36.19%, acidity 0.218%, sugar acid ratio 248.42 and vitamin C 27.35% respectably on 120 days. In American Festival variety the moisture were 39.39%, TS 60.59%, pH 3.00, TSS 59.1%, total sugar 46.3%, reducing sugar 15.6%, non reducing sugar 30.70%, acidity 0.228%, sugar acid ratio 203.10 and vitamin C 27.06 on the effect of 120 days storage period.

Frequency and Rates of Outdoor Activities, and Perceptions of Places to Perform these Activities by Native Americans and Caucasians Interviewed in Tennessee

Activity patterns and perceptions play a key role in human health risk, management, and planning. A sample of 233 people attending a Native American festival in Cookeville, Tennessee was interviewed to determine the types, percent participation, and outdoor activities rates, and their perceptions of the importance of characteristics of nuclear sites. Results indicate that: (1) a high percentage of respondents used outdoor environments, (2) they used them for consumptive (hunting, fishing), non-consumptive (hiking, walking, bird-watching), and religious/sacred activities, (3) a higher percentage of respondents engaged in non-consumptive than consumptive activities, (4) praying or meditating, communing with nature, and bird-watching had the highest uses rates (5) the environmental characteristics rated the highest were lack of radionuclides that presented a health risk, no visible smog, clean air, and unpolluted water, (6) the presence of people, buildings and roads were rated the lowest, and (7) Native Americans had higher outdoor participation rates, participated more frequently, and evaluated environmental characteristics higher than did Caucasians. This information can be used by managers to create and maintain outdoor habitats that fit the needs of local people. Planning and management require information on public policy, human needs and requirements, and human perceptions and evaluations of environmental characteristics.

Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown

Book Review| April 01 2011 Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown. By Chiou-Ling Yeh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv + 315 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $60 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). K. Scott Wong K. Scott Wong Williams College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2011) 30 (3): 117–118. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.30.3.0117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation K. Scott Wong; Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2011; 30 (3): 117–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.30.3.0117 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2011 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown (review)

Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown (review)

Review: Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown, by Chiou-Ling Yeh

Review: <i>Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown</i>, by Chiou-Ling Yeh

Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown

Journal Article Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown Get access Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown. By Yeh Chiou-Ling. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv + 315 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.) Sarah M. Griffith Sarah M. Griffith University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 2009, Pages 521–522, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/40.4.521 Published: 01 November 2009