volksfeest
English translation: (immensely) popular event
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|  Selected response from: Luuk Arens Netherlands Local time: 19:31 | ||||||
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| 3 +4 | (immensely) popular events |
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| 5 | public celebration |
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| 4 | popular festival |
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| 3 -2 | a folk festival |
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public celebration Explanation: Lots of public celebrations in the US (parades, etc.) |
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popular festival Explanation: Van dale - volsksfeest = popular festival and for once I can't think of a better term perhaps popular day out ? Nothing quite like t.l.t.z. ... But there is an annual event at Shoreham in Sussex, see refs below: Picture Gallery - David Williams flying homepage This page contains an assortment of flying pictures, some taken by myself and others ... Shoreham harbour. www.dmjwilliams.co.uk/gallery.htm Risingup Aviation Links url: www.uk-airshows.demon.co.uk/shoreham/ ... Fearless pilots launch their handmade flying machines off a pier and straight into the water below. ... www.risingup.com/links/index.cgi?/ Recreation/Aviation/Airshows/ Google Directory - Recreation > Aviation > Events Fearless pilots launch their hand-made flying machines off a pier and straight .... www.google.com/Top/Recreation/Aviation/Events/ -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2005-12-11 02:42:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Discovery Channel has some shows (British made as far as I can tell)in which people construct their own vehicles and have to navigate a special course, but without the spectators as in the Dutch (TROS?) show. |
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13 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +4
peer agreement (net): +4(immensely) popular events Explanation: Oh and, apparently, there is more to this programme than meets the eye See: www.pucrs.br/famecos/iamcr/textos/a_popcult.pdf -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 mins (2005-12-11 02:50:42 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Here goes: The meaning of the meaninglessness. On the cultural signification of popular television entertainment in the Netherlands” Stijn Reijnders University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Due to liberalization policies in the nineties, the entertainment genre has marched to the center of European television. Other genres, such as information or drama, are either shut out from prime time, or transformed into entertainment clones such as infotainment, reality TV or docudrama. This development makes research into the cultural signification of television entertainment more and more important. Traditionally, television entertainment is seen as meaningless: it is there ‘just to entertain’. Viewers are thought to waste their precious time by watching television entertainment, getting dumber with each game show while running the risk of getting brainwashed by the ‘capitalist’, ‘patriarchal’ ideologies of the broadcasting corporations. Since the seventies, research under the umbrella of cultural studies has shown the shortcomings of this pessimistic view. Researchers discovered the ‘producing consumer’, who ‘poached’ and ‘stripped’ eclectically from consumer society to construct his own ‘bricolage’. As an unintended result the role of production in the construction of meaning disappeared into the background. In this article I attempt to include production and consumption in the analysis of the cultural signification of television entertainment, by looking at the interaction between the different actors – producers, consumers, participants and public – in the case of Te Land ter Zee, the longest running entertainment show on Dutch television. In Te Land ter Zee, groups of participants compete with each other in building decorative, carnivalistic vehicles, before leaving them at the tender mercies of an obstacle course. Te Land ter Zee is analyzed from an ethnological perspective: it is seen as a collective, secular ritual, dealing with feelings of communitas and solidarity. What does Te Land ter Zee signify for the concerned actors, and how do these processes of appropriating relate to each other? What does this say about television entertainment in general? For this purpose, thirty interviews were conducted with participants of Te Land ter Zee in the 2003 season. Additionally, the developer and producer were interviewed, as well as numerous spectators during the shootings. Furthermore, six seasons of Te Land ter Zee - a selection of approximately fifty hours of television - were analyzed. Finally, forty self-proclaimed viewers of Te Land ter Zee were asked to write down their opinions on the program. These diverse research tactics created a polyphonic analysis, with interesting outcomes. As it turned out, the meaninglessness is not so meaningless after all, in functioning as a platform for the performance of group identities. |
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