Thoughts and research about the spectacle - to be added to throughout the year
Spectacle
Carnivals are about spectacle and have a strong visual presence
Within the spectacle there is no distinction between actors and spectators because the audience live within it, and 'while carnival lasts, there is no other life outside of it.'(Bakhtin, 1984, p.7)
'Music performance would transform itself, by developing spectacle, amplifying personalities and heightening the semblance of spontaneity. (Thornton, 1999, p.77)
'The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification.' (Debord, 2013, p.4)
Laughter
'Laughter has a deep philosophical meaning, it is one of the essential forms of the truth concerning the world as a whole, concerning history and man; it is a peculiar point of view relative to the world; the world is seen anew, no less (and perhaps more) profoundly than when seen from a serious standpoint' (Bakhtin, 1984, p.66)
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