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2 unusual facts about Carnivalesque


Carnivalesque

The Feast of Fools had its chief vogue in the French cathedrals, but there are a few English records of it, notably in Lincoln Cathedral and Beverley Minster.

The carnivalesque was employed in the 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest), directed by Satyajit Ray.


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English underground

The phrase was used, in a wider cultural sense, in Jonathon Green's book Days In The Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961-1971, a collection of first-hand accounts of the 1960s counter-culture that often drew on carnivalesque and music hall traditions and styles.


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