Empirische Studie I (Befragung)

Keim, Gesche

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“…Anti-French Carnival songs denounced the "welsh hen," while others denounced Denmark and praised the banding together of German brothers to free Schleswig-Holstein from Danish chains. 75 Such nationalist sentiment in late nineteenth-century Carnival often intermixed with pro-Prussian sentiment. This is seen in 1870, with the changing of the Carnival monarch's title from "Hero Carnival" to "Prince Carnival" in honor of the Prussian king.…”

Section: Carnival Politics and Contested Meaningsmentioning

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The Reinvention of Tradition: Form, Meaning, and Local Identity in Modern Cologne Carnival

deWaal

2013

Cent Eur Hist

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O VER the past few decades, a flood of historical scholarship has been spawned by the groundbreaking works of Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger, and others who have illustrated how a host of traditions were creations invented in the recent past to inform modern identities. The rituals of the British monarchy, the trappings of Scottish Highland culture, and many other traditions were revealed to have anything but ancient origins. Examination of such inventions, Hobsbawm argued, provided, among other things, a means to observe broader historical shifts. 1 The intention of this article is not to illustrate another example of a tradition invented in the recent past. Rather, it seeks to examine how longer-standing traditions have been subject to related processes of reinvention. 2 Some recent work, even if not written to theorize on reinvention, could be read through such a lens. Work in memory studies, for example, has shown how broad notions of national, regional, or local "tradition" could be reshaped based on how and which historical events were remembered. Works on "sites of memory" have similarly shown how conceptions of traditional objects and places can shift due to the fluctuation of memories attached to them. 3 Beyond memory studies, scholars of theological traditions, often confronted with themes of universal truth and intergenerational change, have also produced works that could be viewed through the prism of reinvention. 4 Kurt Schori demonstrates, for example, how the transmission of

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Section: Carnival Politics and Contested Meaningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Reinvention of Tradition: Form, Meaning, and Local Identity in Modern Cologne Carnival

deWaal

2013

Cent Eur Hist

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Empirische Studie I (Befragung)

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The Reinvention of Tradition: Form, Meaning, and Local Identity in Modern Cologne Carnival

The Reinvention of Tradition: Form, Meaning, and Local Identity in Modern Cologne Carnival

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