ENTERTAINMENT
In every century, in every age, after hard working people needed to do things that are making them feel good. This is what we call – entertainment.
As every epoch has its own fashion, music style, political system, so it also has very distinctive types of entertainment.Let’s start with the very beginning of the human evolution. Yes, even Stone Age had several types of distraction. As we know, people of that time, used to hunt animals for food. It was not easy to hunt mammoths, wild boars or bears. So according to that – bird hunting was a huge leisure for stone agers. Other step – middle Ages… The romantic age…The Age of troubadoures, tet-a-tet fights to win ladies heart and dove – mail. People of that period used to work really hard, because they wanted to have a good life. The whole community was marshalled in different castes. For example: tradespeople, slaves or stewards.
Every caste had its own way of having fun. As higher the caste was – all the better was the entertainment. For instance: vast feasts with hundreds guests and expensive (for that time) regale, where young males could look for a woman.
The lower castes had something like tiny celebratings inside their houses, or yards. They were drinking cheap or home made vine and dancing with music which was performed by theirselves.
But we can’t forget the fact, that this century, was the time when church was almighty. So no matter in which caste you were, you had no right for big celebrations.Next age I want to mention, is renaissance. It was a time of art. Many famous artists, like Leonardo Da Vinci, Gabriel, Mikelangelo and many more.
As the art had improved, similarly improved the entertainment. People started acting in theathres, which was the first step in the history of theathre. The next new thing in the section of entertainment – was carnavals. People loved to dress up in colorful clothes and go to the streets with their friends. It usually was a town festival, and the whole community was taking part in it, only in different places of the town.
People started making special dances for different events, so if you were in a feast of renaissance, you just HAD to know how to dance one or another dance, because everyone were dancing at the same time, so if someone made a wrong move, it was was easy to mention it.
Teenagers of that time ,were really into romantic stuff, like serenades, love poems writing etc. It was a normal thing for a guy, to pay money for musicians and take them to the house of “THE QUEEN OF HIS HEART”. Musicians were playing music, and young man, was singing a serenade, that he wrote for a young woman.
Now… Huge jump to 19th centurie. The 70s… Years that my parents are still remembering with a smile. The Beatles, ABBA and many more talented musicians started their career at that time.