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Festival Express
$19.98
WATCHING THIS DVD BROUGHT BACK MANY MEMORIES OF THE SIXTIES. THE MUSIC, THE ATTITUDE, ALONG WITH A GLIMPSE OF A THE LIVES OUT MUSICAL HEROES WERE LIVING. THE MUSIC IS INCREDIBLE. THE SCENES WHERE THEY ARE INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER DURING THEIR TRAIN TRECK ACROSS CANADA IS A VIEW INTO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE TUNE IN, TURN ON GENERATION.

World Party: The Rough Guide to the World's Best Festivals
$24.99
I been closely involved with a number of the festivals discussed in this book (Trinidad Carnival, NY Village Halloween Parade, Mardi Gras, and various Hindu/Buddhist festivals in Nepal). It provides a useful gloss for someone wishing to plan festival travels, and most of the basic information is helpful. However, this book is filled with inaccuracies, omissions, and misleading statements. Clearly it is hard to do justice to the cultural complexity and history of some festivals in a few pages, but in certain cases the authors' emphasis partying, drinking, and "shagging" comes at the expense of offering a cultural and historical context for these festivals. I think this approach is just fine for rock festivals, but it does a real disservice to 1000-year old ritual events which have been diluted and endangered in recent years by tourists just looking for a good time. Festivals in this context reveal important and ancient local narratives, through layered symbolic imagery, ritual procession, costume and mask, and music and dance. World Party seems only secondarily interested in these narratives, and contributes unwittingly and irresponsibly to their decline.

In short, use this book to plan a trip, identify where you want to go and to help with logistics. But look elsewhere for any kind of genuine understanding of what you will experience. You owe that much to the cultures you are visiting. As a start I recommend books by Max Harris on Christian Festivals, and Barbara Mauldin's book on Carnaval.

Festivals Family and Food
$22.00
This book is full of good old-fashioned information for embracing yearly celebrations, however I did not find it enjoyable to read (because of it's outdated format) in comparison to the other books from 'Hawthorn Press' I have been enjoying.

GUESS Skinny Jeans - Festival Wash, FESTIVAL WASH (30)
$89.00
Low rise Slim fit Skinny leg Festival wash Five pocket design 32-1/2 Inseam 100% Cotton Machine wash cold Men > Denim > Skinny