Meaning of bush party | Babel Free

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An outdoor social gathering held in a wooded area or a field, especially one attended primarily by young people at which alcohol is drunk.

Canada

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“Many stories are told over there about the bush parties to which the men go. I saw⟳ a one-act play⟳, one might call⟳ it, depicting the men enjoying themselves at one of these beer bush parties and the consequences of over-consumption of this terrible stuff manufactured under very primitive and unhygienic conditions. The ladies enacted the bush party, and it seemed to me a wonderful moral lesson to the young people to keep⟳ away from beer parties of that nature.”

“Young people were largely allowed to have⟳ unsupervised grad bush parties where liquor and drugs were assumed to be freely available. This was not seen as an isolated Spring⟳ event, but rather part of the whole fabric of the community.”

“Lang has had a certain amount of experience⟳ with big vehicles, having put⟳ in a stint as the driver of a five-ton grain truck before she became a legendary “progressive country” singer, and having spent her adolescence in a small town on the Alberta prairie, where “bush parties” are part of growing up. Bush parties involve⟳ a lot of nighttime drinking around a bonfire somewhere out of town, frequently from the back of a half-ton pickup. “This Chevy would be an asset at a bush party because you could slide⟳ open⟳ the back window and blast the stereo,” she noted.”

“Bush Parties and Booze Cruises were shaped mainly out of the necessity to find⟳ a “place⟳ to party” but they did represent⟳ more than the material practicalities of space. Both activities became symbols of rural identity and as such were proliferated to mark⟳ and proclaim that identity. The Bush Party was heralded as a badge of hardiness. In the small town, rural people were closer to nature and partied under the stars, in the great outdoors.”

“Well this guy- he lived out on the highway um, near Haileybury. And he had like⟳ a huge property and in his backyard he had this bus. Um, and so it was like⟳ a bush party but there was a big bus there and people were just going crazy in and on top of the bus and I remember⟳ um people being on top of the bus and like⟳ shooting fireworks in the air and-stuff”

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