Well Met

Well Met
Title Well Met PDF eBook
Author Rachel Rubin
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 360
Release 2012-11-19
Genre History
ISBN 0814771386

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The Renaissance Faire—a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring—receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major “family friendly” leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire. Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it faced, and the key figures involved. Drawing upon vibrant interview material and deep archival research, Rachel Lee Rubin reveals the way the faires established themselves as a pioneering and highly visible counter cultural referendum on how we live now—our family and sexual arrangements, our relationship to consumer goods, and our corporate entertainments. In order to understand the meaning of the faire to its devoted participants,both workers and visitors, Rubin has compiled a dazzling array of testimony, from extensive conversations with Faire founder Phyllis Patterson to interviews regarding the contemporary scene with performers, crafters, booth workers and “playtrons.” Well Met pays equal attention what came out of the faire—the transforming gifts bestowed by the faire’s innovations and experiments upon the broader American culture: the underground press of the 1960s and 1970s, experimentation with “ethnic” musical instruments and styles in popular music, the craft revival, and various forms of immersive theater are all connected back to their roots in the faire. Original, intrepid, and richly illustrated, Well Met puts the Renaissance Faire back at the historical center of the American counterculture.

Renaissance Festivals

Renaissance Festivals
Title Renaissance Festivals PDF eBook
Author Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans
Publisher McFarland
Pages 217
Release 2009-10-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0786454695

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This ethnographic study of contemporary American Renaissance fairs focuses 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. It is also partly an autobiographical account of interactive improvisation, subcultures within the festival framework, the delineation between living history and historical elaboration, and a new understanding of performers and patrons.

Cantiga's Renaissance Festival Favorites

Cantiga's Renaissance Festival Favorites
Title Cantiga's Renaissance Festival Favorites PDF eBook
Author Robert Bielefeld
Publisher Mel Bay Publications
Pages 153
Release 2011-12-06
Genre Music
ISBN 1610658442

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Players of all kinds of instruments including flute, fiddle, mandolin, recorder, whistle, guitar, harp and more can use this collection of music which is popular at modern renaissance festivals. the music is presented simply, with melody lines and chord symbols, allowing for a wide range of interpretation. In addition to many period dance tunes, the book contains a selection of vocal numbers with lyrics included. Each selection is accompanied by text to suggest ideas for performance, place the music in a modern festival context and provide useful information to those interested in studying historical sources of early music. Cantiga's arrangements of some of the tunes in this book can be heard on the companion recording. They are played at a listening tempo by the ensemble: Wooden flute or recorder, fiddle, cello, harp and percussion.

The Tree Shepherd's Daughter

The Tree Shepherd's Daughter
Title The Tree Shepherd's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Gillian Summers
Publisher North Star Editions, Inc.
Pages 337
Release 2010-09-08
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 0738717231

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When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood must leave California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival. Playacting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl’s worst nightmare. But then Keelie starts seeing fairies and uncovers her connection to a community of elves.

The Dread

The Dread
Title The Dread PDF eBook
Author Gail Z. Martin
Publisher Hachette+ORM
Pages 386
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0316192368

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In the epic conclusion to the Fallen Kings Cycle, set in the world of The Chronicles of the Necromancer, war has come to the Winter Kingdoms. Summoner-King Tris Drayke takes what remains of his army north for a war he is ill-prepared to fight, as reports from spies confirm Tris's worst fear. A new threat rises across the sea: a dark summoner who intends to make the most of the Winter Kingdoms' weakness. In Isencroft, Kiara's father is assassinated, and she has no choice except to return and claim the crown. But she must leave behind her husband and their infant son to face the dark power that threatens her rule. The Dread will rise. Kings will fall. The Chronicles of the Necromancer The Summoner The Blood King Dark Haven Dark Lady’s Chosen Fallen Kings Cycle The Sworn The Drea

Ghastly Glass

Ghastly Glass
Title Ghastly Glass PDF eBook
Author Joyce and Jim Lavene
Publisher Penguin
Pages 248
Release 2009-09-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101139994

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At her glass-blowing apprenticeship, Renaissance reveler Jessie Morton?s crabby boss and his creepy nephew are causing her problems. But when the man playing the Grim Reaper is killed, Jess has to find the lady, lord or serf whodunit.

Court Festivals of the European Renaissance

Court Festivals of the European Renaissance
Title Court Festivals of the European Renaissance PDF eBook
Author J.R. Mulryne
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 426
Release 2017-07-05
Genre Art
ISBN 1351947990

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19 Ephemeral Ceremonial Architecture in Prague, Vienna and Cracow in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries -- Index of Names