PERLS204 Lecture : Feb 29 - Selling Culture.doc
1 May 2012
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Quebec winter carnival: a commercial invention created in 1894. French-catholic tradition of carnival, which led up to mardi gras (fat. The calgary stampede: guy weadick was the promoter and founder. This took away from the ideas of amateurism. Indian village : exhibited ideas of frontier progress: displays of the primitive past among the modern wild west, offers a so-called authentic western-frontier experience, a socially and commercially constructed event. Indian village was near to the stampede grounds. John murray gibbon and the cpr festivals: the 2 big festivals gave way to the cpr, 1920s trend: inventing folk attractions that were distinctly canadian . Festivals tended to patronize french-canadian culture as a quaint remnant of the past, rather than a living culture: the banff highland games: happened on labour day and idea was to fill the banff springs hotel. It was help in banff due to the scottish roots of banff.
