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    [Oral Test] FESTIVALS

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    FESTIVALS Good morning everybody. My name is Lavitsef. I’m here today to invite you to go on the most colorful and eventful journey that you’ll ever make in your life. A journey with Slavitsef to Festivals! But first‚ I wanna give you some basic information about festivals. A festival is simply a day or period of the year when people stop working to celebrate a special event. In general‚ there are 3 major types of festivals: national festivals such as Mexican Independence Day Festival‚ religious

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    Folk Fair Festival

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    Festivals in Jharkhand Sarhul is a festival where Shaal tree and leaves play an important role. Sarhul is celebrated during the spring season when the Shaal trees get new leaves. Shaal flowers are brought to saran sthal (the sacred place) and pahan propitiates the Gods. The priest is called Pahan and he distributes shaal flowers to every villager. The shaal flowers represent the brotherhood and friendship among villagers. It is believed that the earth becomes fertile after this festival as such

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    My Favourite Festival

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    AN ESSAY ON MY FAVOURITE FESTIVAL India is a multicultural land where various languages are spoken‚ may religious and customs observed‚ and may festivals are celebrated. Each festival has a religious or mythological significance behind it. All festivals are celebrated with enthusiasm and traditional gaiety. Children especially enjoy them a great deal. The family usually prepares for the festival well in advance. Clothes are bought‚ the house is cleaned and white washed. Everything begins to glitter

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    international festival Steve Henderson‚ Leeds Metropolitan University Glastonbury Festival has beconne a worldwide attraction for music fans and artists alike. In 2009‚ Bruce Springsteen was added to the long list of acts (from Paul McCartney to Oasis) that have appeared at the festival. It started in 1970 when 1‚500 hippy revellers gathered on a farm near Glastonbury Tor to be plied with free milk and entertainment from a makeshift stage. Now‚ Glastonbury is a major international festival that attracts

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    Festival Handbook

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    2 This booklet was inspired by and written for participants in the Festival Encouragement Project (FEP)‚ a program co-created in 2003 by the Center for Cultural Innovation and supported by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (LADCA). The goal of the FEP is to build the strength and capacity of selected outdoor cultural celebrations produced in L.A. that serve residents and tourists. Book Photography: Aaron Paley Book Design: Peter Walberg Published by the Center for

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    Caribbean Identity

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    Is the Caribbean a geographical region defined by proximity to a body of water? Is it a group of nations defined by a common history or culture or by political links? Is there such a thing as a Caribbean identity or spirit or culture shared by all the territories clustered around the Caribbean Sea‚ regardless of language or political status? Do we as a Caribbean people act as members of a community or a culture that extends beyond the shores of individual islands? This essay will seek to show

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    Festivals Essay

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    industries implies a ‘massification’ of culture and entertainment‚ as such‚ festivals are found to be a cultural industry‚ involving large numbers of people working in organisation‚ administration‚ promotion‚ marketing‚ and the creative and performing arts. Festivals come in different forms including agricultural‚ cultural‚ historical‚ horticultural‚ and arts festivals to specific audiences and sub-cultures (fringe festivals). Culture is about‚ and has been used to shape and to govern‚ identity; therefore

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    Music in the Caribbean

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    Music in the Caribbean The genre of Caribbean Music encompasses a diverse variety of musical styles and traditions from islands that are located in the Caribbean Sea and it represents something that is simple‚ exotic yet rich and wonderful. The styles range anywhere from traditional folk genres such as the Puerto Rican aguinaldo and Jamaican mento to more contemporary music such as salsa and reggae. They are each syntheses of African‚ European‚ Indian and Indigenious influences‚ largely created

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    Caribbean Music

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    Roderick Lu Music 104-02 What is meant by Caribbean music in a new mode? What emphasis‚ in this chapter‚ seems to justify a departure from traditional presentations of music and culture of the Caribbean? Caribbean music in a new mode it’s meant that it probes the African antecedents retained in the region’s religious rituals. The chapter further contends that in the African-derived context‚ no distinction is made between sacred and secular‚ and that popular festivals like carnival‚ rara‚ junkannu‚ or gumbay

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    every possible nuance of Caribbean life‚ so that it is almost impossible to imagine life without them. Like all entities that change the world in which we live‚ globalization has both negative and positive impacts; in the Caribbean its positive aspects include a basic ‘knowledge-sharing’ and easier access to more resources. Disadvantages of globalization here in the Caribbean revolve mainly around the way in which it adversely affects our small island economies. The Caribbean has benefited in numerous

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