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Country Folk: Oslo has June festival events also, in special tribute to Ibsen, but in this department, the big capital plays second fiddle to the smaller port city. The Norway festivals are closely integrated with the festivals in Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen/Elsinore, running as a cycle from late in May through June, which is another evidence of Scandinavian cooperation.
2. Folk Pageantry Folk dances are a charming and vital feature of the Bergen Festival and I guarantee that if you see, for instance, the Hailing peasant dancing in costume, done in two-four time, you'll not soon forget its color. Hundreds of country folk participate in the varied programs.
Perhaps you don't care too much for music but love the riotous color and buoyancy of folk pageantry and carnivals. In this field Europe has surely ten pageants to our one and some of them are incredibly lavish and effervescent. The best of them are briefly described in this book, country by country, and their dates are given, so you need never have to utter the familiar tourist lament, "If I'd only known!"
Tintyping was usually casual; when the results have :harm it is due to the lack of sophistication and to the iaive directness characteristic of folk art. Records of out-ngs, mementos of friendships, stiffly posed portraits of country folk against painted backgrounds are common; views are few. The process lingered in the backwaters of photography as the direct descendant of the daguerreotype. Tintypes were enormously popular: "It is impossible to compute the number of quantities which have been made and sold since I860," wrote Edward M. Esta-brooke in his standard handbook, The Ferrotype and How to Make It, and concluded, "I suppose it would exceed that of all other pictures put together." |
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