The entertainment has been present in the lives of human beings since time immemorial. Even animals look for a way to entertain themselves in their habitat and create rituals for the same purpose. When you talk about entertainment, you talk about much more than just hanging out for recreational purposes, as there is an art and a trade behind it. Over time, this activity has adapted to the trends and interests of societies.
What is entertainment
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It is the set of activities that human beings carry out to distract themselves from the tasks they carry out in their daily routine. Generally when it is talked about, it is related to activities that involve television, concerts, theater, dance, sports, cinema, among others that, in effect, are part of the main known entertainment activities.
In ancient times, the way governments enforced laws had overtones of cruelty and injustice. One way to keep the town calm was precisely by keeping it entertained and supplying it with food of questionable quality. This was called “bread and circus”, which to this day is a derogatory term for the practice that is still carried out today.
The term entertain not only involves distraction for pleasure through some leisure activity, but also means diverting a person's attention to achieve some goal; that is, wasting time. It can also be related to the concept of procrastination, which is the postponement of activities that must be carried out at a certain time by other pleasant ones of less importance, which keep those who perform them entertained, avoiding the main ones.
Entertainment classes
There are as many tastes and possibilities as there are many people in the world. What sports can represent the most fun for a young person today, for another of the same age, video games are their best allies.
Entertainment has evolved alongside humanity. The arrival of new technologies has redefined the concept, creating a new range of options and possibilities in this area. However, despite the evolution in ways of entertaining, the cause and purpose of such action remains the same.
There is a great variety of forms of entertainment, among which can be highlighted:
Fine arts
There are nine of them today (with the additions today), but they can be taken:
- The dance: ballet performances, popular music, contests, casino salsa dancing, among others.
- The sculpture: either for exhibitions or for personal entertainment.
- The music: classical, commercial, popular, playing an instrument, vocalization.
- The painting: both make and admire.
- Literature: writing and reading.
- Cinematography: realistic or fictional stories, cinema has delighted generations with entertaining films since 1895, photography (the art of capturing images with points of view that can go unnoticed by the collective, admiration of them)
- comic: storytelling through illustrated vignettes and considered the ninth art.
- The circus is an option for entertainment that brings together several elements: theater, dance, comedy, acrobatics, which can be enjoyed by the whole family and is a good alternative in entertainment for children.
Theater is and has been the storytelling par excellence prior to film, radio and television. Within this category can be included pantomime, opera, monologues, puppet shows and other manifestations of this art.
Technology
This category is paramount for modern society, as it encompasses much of today's forms of entertainment. We can highlight television (with varied programming for all tastes), radio (musical broadcasting, storytelling, various entertainment topics, news of collective interest), cinema (with a great universe of entertaining films) and the Internet.
The Internet has been, perhaps, the one with the greatest impact, since it alone includes television, radio and film content, adding social networks, varied pages, forms of remote communication, mail, easy-to-reach adult entertainment, among other types of content.
At home, many people build their own place as an entertainment center, in which many of these electronic devices are essential: television, computer, Blu-Ray, video game consoles, among others.
sports
Sport is also considered a great option for entertainment, since the existence of multiple disciplines represents a healthy and universal alternative when entertaining. Here both the practitioner and the observer are entertaining.
Games
Video games, online games and board games are the choice to distract those who are looking for a more relaxed alternative and that represent a challenge to intelligence, at least in the case of strategy or problem solving games. In this category, among many entertaining games, those of chance and betting can be included.
Events
In this category we can find parades, fairs, concerts, ceremonies for entertainment purposes, parties, exhibitions, caravans, among others.
Gastronomy
It can be from practicing the culinary arts as a hobby, to attending tastings, restaurants, going for a dessert, or some other option for those who enjoy good food.
tourism
Traveling to another city, country, or even walking within the locality, is one of the best known forms of distraction. This can include a trip to the beach, the mountains, hiking, city walks, among other activities offered by each region.
Busking
It is what is known as street performance, it includes categories such as theater, contortionism, juggling, card tricks, stilts, dancing, reading luck, singing, among others.
Importance of entertainment
In past centuries and millennia, certain types of entertainment could only be consumed by the upper and privileged classes, since they had more leisure time for it and, of course, they had the purchasing power for such luxury.
To this day, its borders have expanded, and it has taken such relevance, that it resulted in the emergence of the great entertainment industry, as we know it today, and which has generated countless amounts of jobs, managing to reach the masses regardless of social class distinction.
How to make entertainment
There are many ways to entertain and many areas to specialize in to take you to professional levels.
There are numerous schools in Mexico that teach various arts, such as performing arts, music, dance, sculpture, painting, in at least 28 of the 32 states. The most recognized are the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where the careers of Art and Design, Visual Arts, Cinematography, Art History, Theater and Performance, and Music and Artistic Technology are taught; the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA), where degrees are offered in Art Sciences and Cultural Management, Cinematographic and Audiovisual Arts, and Performing and Performing Arts; the Veracruzana University (UV), which are the degrees in Photography, Visual Arts, Contemporary Dance and Art Education with Differentiated Profiles.
