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Author : Dale Jarvis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771173759
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Any Mummer's 'lowed In? written by Dale Jarvis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bud Davidge
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780888999603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Mummer's Song written by Bud Davidge and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of a regional Christmas custom tells how Granny's Newfoundland house is visited by the mummers, masked and costumed figures, who turn the night into a wild revel with their jokes and dancing.
Author : Dale Gilbert Jarvis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771173735
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Any Mummers 'Lowed In? written by Dale Gilbert Jarvis and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Twelve Days of Christmas roll around each year in Newfoundland and Labrador, you might see oddly padded figures with humps on their backs, shoes on the wrong feet, their auntie's bra on the outside of their clothes, with faces hidden behind masks or bits of old lace. These characters trudge from door to door or make surprise appearances at parties, seniors' homes, or workplaces. Once inside, they dance and sing and have a drink or two while people try to guess just who is behind all that clothing. Then, before they roast from the heat of the kitchen, they head back out into the darkness and do it all over again. These strange creatures are mummers, though they can go by other names: jannies, fools, oonchicks, or darbies. Whatever you call them, and however they are costumed, they are a firm part of the province's Christmas folklore. But while today's mummers are often portrayed as friendly and entertaining, they have a past checkered with violence, vandalism, and even murder. By the 1860s, mummering had been made illegal, a ban which stayed in place for well over a century, but which failed to stamp out a beloved, and complicated, Christmas tradition. Folklorist Dale Jarvis traces the history of the custom in Newfoundland and Labrador and charts the mummer's path through periods of decline and revival. Using archival records, historic photographs, oral histories, and personal interviews with those who have kept the tradition alive, he tells the story of the jannies themselves. Along the way, he will introduce you to other colourful Yuletide characters, including ugly stick-makers, the wild-eyed, snapping-jawed hobby horse, the St. Stephen's Day wren boys, the actors of the old mummers plays, and the fearsome nalujuit of Northern Labrador. Welcome to the colourful world of Christmas in Newfoundland and Labrador, a holiday that is not complete without a little bit of mischief and foolishness!
Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590514351
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Galore written by Michael Crummey and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset Award When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon. Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an inscrutable woman known only as Devine’s Widow, with whom he has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a child when Judah washes ashore, but finds herself tied to him all her life in ways she never expects. Galore is the story of the saga that develops between these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning two centuries. With Paradise Deep, award-winning novelist Michael Crummey imagines a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to discern. Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.
Author : Alex Palmer
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762470402
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)
Download or read book The Atlas of Christmas written by Alex Palmer and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating (and sometimes downright odd!) ways that people and nations celebrate the holiday season and share this festive compendium's unique traditions together with family and friends. Do you know that in Guatemala there's a "Burn the Devil" tradition to kick off the Christmas season, where revelers gather to set fire to devil-piñatas? In Sweden, a popular figure in Christmas traditions is the Yule Goat, a rowdy, menacing character who demands gifts. And in Japan, a big bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken has become the classic Christmas Day feast. These and many other global Christmas traditions are featured here in this delightful book. From decorations and activities to feasts and special treats, there's a wide range of both lovely and unusual traditions from around the globe.
Author : Anthony J. Vickery
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772126047
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Canadian Performance Documents and Debates written by Anthony J. Vickery and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into theatrical activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material such as photographs, petitions, performance programs, and musical scores to explore what these documents tell us about the values, debates, and priorities of artists and their audiences from the past 400 years. For each of the 31 chapters, leading and emerging scholars offer introductions that rethink the artistic, economic, and socio-political significance of plays, dance, opera, circuses, and other performance genres and events. This collection challenges readers to rethink Canadian theatre and performance history, and will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre, dance, music, and Performance Studies. Contributors: Clarence S. Bayne, Kym Bird, Justin A. Blum, Amy Bowring, Jill Carter, Jenn Cole, Cynthia Cooper, Heather Davis-Fisch, Moira J. Day, Ray Ellenwood, Alan Filewod, Howard Fink, Liza Giffen, J. Paul Halferty, James Hoffman, Erin Hurley, John D. Jackson, Stephen Johnson, Sasha Kovacs, Sylvain Lavoie, Louis Patrick Leroux, Allana C. Lindgren, Denyse Lynde, Erin Joelle McCurdy, Wing Chung Ng, Glen F. Nichols, M. Cody Poulton, VK Preston, Daniel J. Ruppel, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Paul J. Stoesser, Christl Verduyn, Anthony J. Vickery, Anton Wagner
Author : Peter Harrop
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443850071
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Performance and Ethnography written by Peter Harrop and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance and Ethnography: Dance, Drama, Music revisits the territory of the performance orientation, touching on anthropology, dance, folklore, music and theatre to look for present trends in both the ethnography of performance and performance ethnography. One of the main concerns of this volume is with an embodied, affective and sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between ethnographer, participants and practices as key to understanding and knowledge. Another is the extent to which individuals are shaped by their engagement with ethnographic practice in the midst of migration, diffusion, revival, appropriation and commodification of performance. A third is the interface of academic disciplines with the idea of performance, and the way in which academics and practitioners are drawn to ethnography to better understand, negotiate, perform and profess their diverse fields. Individual chapters include a refreshed interface for performance studies and anthropology through new approaches to ritual; a consideration of performance studies through an ethnography of PSi; the emplaced body as a tool for ethnographic research; somatic practice in dance as a mode of ethnography; artisanal musical instrument making as performance; the commodification of traditional performance; and an introductory overview that reflects shifting ethnographic perspectives on traditional performances.
Author : Thomas C. Badcock
Publisher : Breakwater Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550812046
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Honour Thy Mother written by Thomas C. Badcock and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and her young son begin a new life in a Newfoundland fishing community in an attempt to escape the past.
Author : Kathryn Taylor
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525507753
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Misty's Misadventures written by Kathryn Taylor and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, Misty Muldoon's favourite view of Newfoundland was always the one in her rear-view mirror. So when she has to leave the city and move to the outport of Charlie’s Cove, NL, with her two daughters, a mountain of debt, and the ink freshly dried on her divorce papers, it’s hardly her idea of a happy homecoming. With the help of the kind, meddling and downright eccentric locals, she sets out to rebuild her life in the ramshackle house left to her by her great uncle. When she starts writing a column for the local paper about transitioning back to life on The Rock while looking for a new man, little does she know her search for love will soon go viral when it’s picked up by a reality TV show—Charlie’s Cove and Misty Muldoon will never be the same again. Hilarious, endearing and inspirational, Misty’s Misadventures is a tale of romance, misfortune and the enduring spirit of a woman who won’t give up. It will make you laugh out loud while putting small-town Newfoundland on your bucket list forever.
Author : Alin Rus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666915440
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century written by Alin Rus and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk plays. By focusing on northeastern Romania and southwest Ukraine—two of the most ruralized regions in Europe—this work reveals the complex landscape of peasant plays and the essential role they perform in shaping local culture, economy, and social life. The rapid demise of these practices and the creation of preservation programs is analyzed in the context of the corrosive effects of global capitalism and the processes of globalization, urbanization, mass-mediatization, and heritagization. Just like peasants in search of better resources, rural plays “migrate" from their villages of origin into the urban, modern, and more dynamic world, where they become more visible and are both appreciated and exploited as forms of transnational, intangible cultural heritage.
Author : Ralph Jarvis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781989417300
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Quilted Stash written by Ralph Jarvis and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the snow disappears and patches of land are revealed in spring, you might hear someone in Newfoundland and Labrador say: "The land is quilting." But Mother Nature isn't the only one furiously working on the latest craft project. With some of the most changeable weather in the world, legendary gales, and RDF (rain, drizzle, and fog)--as well as an ingrained habit of reusing, repurposing, and innovating with the supplies on hand--it's no surprise that Canada's easternmost province has a long tradition of quilting and quilters. The Quilted Stash features patterns inspired by this history and informed by the wider Newfoundland and Labrador culture and landscape. These 12 original projects by The Quilted Stash use a variety of techniques, including appliqué, piecing, and collage. Patterns include detailed instructions and are designed for a variety of skill levels. Rooted in tradition but drawing on the shapes and forms of modern quilting, these quilts will do more than keep you warm. They can tell a story, compel you to remember an experience, and take you home.
Author : George Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Mummer's Wife written by George Moore and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Nicol
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525531581
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Sagas & Sea Smoke written by Susan Nicol and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young archeologist and her journalist friend join an eclectic mix of anthropologists descending on L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, the only verified Viking encampment in North America and the planet's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. After thirty-five years, the site is being re-excavated because a new clue has surfaced that might solve a one-thousand-year-old murder. An epic journey of discovery continues where East met West, the past meets the present, and Come-from-Aways meet Newfoundlanders. A modern saga of mystery, magic and mayhem is about to be written.
Author : Dawn Baker
Publisher : Pennywell Books
ISBN 13 : 9781926881454
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)
Download or read book A Newfoundland Christmas written by Dawn Baker and published by Pennywell Books. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah and her brother, Michael, are not happy when they learn that they will be going down home for Christmas. But when they see what a Newfoundland Christmas has to offer, they quickly change their minds! Join Sarah and Michael as they taste delicious Newfoundland treats, chop down their own Christmas tree, go on a sleigh ride, and experience their first Christmas in outport Newfoundland. With beautiful illustrations and a helpful glossary of words from Newfoundland and Labrador, this charming book is one that your family will enjoy for many Christmases to come!
Author : Damhnait Monaghan
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369703545
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)
Download or read book New Girl in Little Cove written by Damhnait Monaghan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fans of Richard Russo’s That Old Cape Magic, Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel, and Patricia Harman’s The Runaway Midwife will enjoy Rachel’s fish-out-of-water journey to acceptance and understanding.” —Booklist "If you loved Come From Away, don’t miss this charming debut novel.”—Kate Hilton, bestselling author of Better Luck Next Time After the local French teacher scandalizes the fishing village of Little Cove, Newfoundland, by running off with a priest, the school looks to the mainland to fill the job quickly. They want someone who can uphold their Catholic values and keep a motley group of largely unwilling students in line. The position is filled by mainlander Rachel O’Brien—technically a Catholic (baptized!), technically a teacher (honors degree!)—who’s desperate to leave her current mess of a life behind. She isn’t surprised that her students don’t see the value of learning French. But she is surprised that she can barely understand their English… Is it a compliment or insult to be called a sleeveen? (Insult.) And the anonymous notes left on her car, telling her to go home, certainly don’t help to make her feel welcome. Still, she is quickly drawn into the island’s traditional music and culture, and into the personal lives of her crusty but softhearted landlady, Lucille, her reluctant students and her fellow teacher Doug Bishop. But when her beliefs clash with church and community, she makes a decision that throws her career into jeopardy. In trying to help a student, has she gone too far? Full of warmth, humor, romance and the quirkiest community of characters… Get ready to be charmed by this impossibly delightful debut, perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Author : Bud Davidge
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre, c1993, 1994 printing.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mummer's Song written by Bud Davidge and published by Douglas & McIntyre, c1993, 1994 printing.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words to a popular song portray the custom of costumed visits made shortly after Christmas in rural Newfoundland.
Author : Terry Gunnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Masks and Mumming in the Nordic Area written by Terry Gunnell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
