Professional paper
The Dramatic Elements in the Carnival Convention of the Territory of Slavonia and Baranja
Lazar Stojnović
Abstract
The Carnival Conventions present today an complex from of national culture performance that enabled discovering of numerous elements which Carnival troops bring near to the theatre. Ancient habit that has been at the time, very wide spread in Slavonia and Baranja, has lost its original importance, thus turning to a massive entertainment. Therefore, the exact nature of the habit, lays in its fête, so we only excluded all those characteristics that make the feast atmosphere (burlesque, laugh, joke, joy, uncivil), and the elements that demonstrate in the best wey the structure of the holiday (massivness, uniformity).
Carnival Conventions as an complex phenomenon, are rich with symbol systems and in the course of the Carnival shows, there are in use numerous dramatic elements (disguising into different image, dools, costumes, masks, mimicry, dance, music, song), which altogether express scene of the Carnival processions as the from of the massive performance.
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Hrčak ID:
237429
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Publication date:
18.5.1987.
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