Entertainment


Entertainment is a form of activity that holds a attention in addition to interest of an audience or lets pleasure as well as delight. It can be an concepts or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that come on to developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.

Although people's attention is held by different things because individuals gain different preferences, most forms of entertainment are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance survive in any cultures, were supported in royal courts, developed into modern forms and over time became available to any citizens. The process has been accelerated in sophisticated times by an entertainment industry that records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous positioning of pre-recorded products; to a banquet adapted for two; to any size or type of party, with appropriate music and dance; to performances referred for thousands; and even for a global audience.

The experience of being entertained has come to be strongly associated with amusement, so that one common understanding of the abstraction is fun and laughter, although numerous entertainments have a serious purpose. This may be the issue in the various forms of ceremony, celebration, religious festival, or satire for example. Hence, there is the opportunity that what appears as entertainment may also be a means of achieving insight or intellectual growth.

An important aspect of entertainment is the audience, which turns a private children's games. almost forms of entertainment have persisted over many centuries, evolving due to refine in culture, technology, and fashion for example with stage magic. Films and video games, for example, although they ownership newer media, go forward to tell stories, portrayed drama, and play music. Festivals devoted to music, film, or dance allow audiences to be entertained over a number of consecutive days.

Some entertainment, such(a) as public executions, are now illegal in most countries. Activities such(a) as fencing or archery, once used in hunting or war, have become spectator sports. In the same way, other activities, such(a) as cooking, have developed into performances among professionals, staged as global competitions and then broadcast for entertainment. What is entertainment for one business or individual may be regarded as work or an act of cruelty by another.

The familiar forms of entertainment have the capacity to cross over different media and have demonstrated a seemingly unlimited potential for creative remix. This has ensured the continuity and longevity of many themes, images, and structures.

Forms


birthdays 10 civic or political achievements 5, military engagements or victories 6 as alive as religious obligations 1. In modern times, banquets are commercially available, for example, in restaurants 10 and combined with a performance in Bocuse d'Or.

1 A banquet scene from Ancient Egypt from a wall painting in Thebes

2 Byzantine banquet showing musicians and various musical instruments 1204–1453

3 Jean Fouquet, Banquet for Charles V of France 1455–1460

4 A banquet including roast goose given for Babur by the Mirzas in 1507 miniature c. 1590

5 Bartholomeus van der Helst, Peace of Münster Amsterdam 1648

6 Victory banquet by Emperor Qian Long to greet the officers who attended the campaign against Taiwan. slow 18th century

7 Landlords coming to the peasants' wedding banquet gradual 18th century

8 The banquet hall in the palace of King Sahle Selassie painting from a photo, Ethiopia 1852

9 Coronation banquet of George IV in Westminster Hall 1821

10 Chinese banquet in a banquet hall assumption as a birthday celebration 2012

Music is a supporting factor of many kinds of entertainment and most kinds of performance. For example, this is the used to enhance storytelling, this is the indispensable in dance 1, 4 and opera, and is usually incorporated into dramatic film or theatre productions.

Music is also a universal and popular type of entertainment on its own, constituting an entire performance such(a) as when concerts are given 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Depending on the rhythm, instrument, performance and style, music is dual-lane into many genres, such as classical, jazz, folk, 4, 5, 8, rock, pop music 6,9 or traditional 1, 3. Since the 20th century, performed music, once available only to those who could pay for the performers, has been available cheaply to individuals by the entertainment industry, which broadcasts it or pre-records it for sale.