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Entertainment is a Must: Celebration and Entertainment in Changing Times

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the relationship between entertainment, celebration and leisure time. In this context, individuality and singularization are analyzed as two important aspects of today’s society. The author presents Mihail Bakhtin’s analysis of the carnival, in which the folk culture of laughter of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is revealed as an alternative culture alongside the dominant power: laughter is ambivalent, it targets everything, thereby temporarily suspending the ruling social relations, the hierarchical order. Today’s celebrations contain only a small amount of this function. In public, community celebrations, in addition to experiencing a sense of community, the possibility of individual living and the need for entertainment are a trend. The study outlines some types of today’s celebrations and the elements of entertainment that they contain. Entertainment on these occasions appears primarily in the form of leisure activities, where entertainment is also a kind of self-realization, a special case of individual performance.

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