TY - JOUR
AU - E.J. Hadley
AB - From well-known celebrations of Carnival and la ducasse, to obscure saint commemorations, ritualized festivals and processionals in Francophone Belgium survive in popular memory and in uence contempo-rary conceptions of local identity. Several St. Roch military marches in the l Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse region in Wall onia received UNESCO recognition as examples of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2012. The annual, multi-day processionals involve hundreds of marchers from local communities dressed in Napo-leonic-era military uniforms, carrying authentic mus-kets and escorting a statue of St. Roch. Many of these marchers trace family involvement back t hrough mul-tiple generations.
M1 - 2
N1 - Publisher: Jan Dhondt Stichting
N2 - From well-known celebrations of Carnival and la ducasse, to obscure saint commemorations, ritualized festivals and processionals in Francophone Belgium survive in popular memory and in uence contempo-rary conceptions of local identity. Several St. Roch military marches in the l Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse region in Wall onia received UNESCO recognition as examples of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2012. The annual, multi-day processionals involve hundreds of marchers from local communities dressed in Napo-leonic-era military uniforms, carrying authentic mus-kets and escorting a statue of St. Roch. Many of these marchers trace family involvement back t hrough mul-tiple generations.
SP - 135
EP - 167
TI - St. Roch military marches in wallonia: Historical memory, commemoration and identity
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089419650&partnerID=40&md5=148d8c7310155223ecf45202efa7f82a
VL - 47
SN - 00350869 (ISSN)
ER -