Inside the Carnival
Author | : Wayne Parent |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0807161772 |
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Author | : Wayne Parent |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0807161772 |
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Author | : Garth L. Green |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2007-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253116724 |
Like many Caribbean nations, Trinidad has felt the effects of globalization on its economy, politics, and expressive culture. Even Carnival, once a clandestine folk celebration, has been transformed into a major transnational festival. In Trinidad Carnival, Garth L. Green, Philip W. Scher, and an international group of scholars explore Carnival as a reflection of the nation and culture of Trinidad and Trinidadians worldwide. The nine essays cover topics such as women in Carnival, the politics and poetics of Carnival, Carnival and cultural memory, Carnival as a tourist enterprise, the steelband music of Carnival, Calypso music on the world stage, Carnival and rap, and Carnival as a global celebration. For readers interested in the history and current expression of Carnival, this volume offers a multidimensional and transnational view of Carnival as a representation of Trinidad and Caribbean culture everywhere. Contributors are Robin Balliger, Shannon Dudley, Pamela R. Franco, Patricia A. de Freitas, Ray Funk, Garth L. Green, Donald R. Hill, Lyndon Phillip, Victoria Razak, and Philip W. Scher.
Author | : Chris Humphrey |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719056031 |
Medieval festivals such as carnival and misrule, were occasions which created a temporary and dynamic upside-down world. This text shows these occasions were highly diverse, and discusses how they were able to negotiate a range of meanings and values.
Author | : Jocelyne Guilbault |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2007-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226310604 |
Written in two parts, part 1 explores the development of Calypso, from it's emergence in the pre-colonial period to the post colonial period. In part 2, the focus is on the new Carnival musical practices of soca, rapso, chutney, soca and ragga soca, and the ways in which they contirbuted to the redefination of Trinidadian cultural politics in the neoliberal era. The new rationailities, contigencies, desires and musical experments that animated the new musics and enabled them to gradually displace calypso from its centrality as national expression is examined.
Author | : Vicki Ann Cremona |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 331970656X |
This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics, where the playful, participatory aspects are appropriated by countervailing forces seeking to influence, control, channel or redirect power. Focusing specifically on the Maltese islands, a tiny European archipelago situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, this work links the contrast between play and power to other Carnival realities across the world. It examines the question of power and identity in relation to different social classes and environments of Carnival play, from streets to ballrooms. It looks at satire and censorship, unbridled gaiety and controlled celebration. It describes the ways Carnival was appropriated as a power channel both by the British and their Maltese subjects, and ultimately how it was manipulated in the struggle for Malta’s independence.
Author | : Henry Louis Mencken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : 9780226519777 |
Provides lively critiques of the elections and policies of American presidents ranging from Warren Harding to Franklin Roosevelt
Author | : Michaeline Crichlow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135751366 |
Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these performances. The authors review Carnival’s performative aspects not merely as a calendrical festival, but rather center attention on the relationship between carnival and everyday life, and on how people negotiate their social spaces and possibilities in the context of modern power. The book therefore seeks to highlight the knotted time-spaces of power and to demonstrate the dynamic interplay between state spaces and people’s spaces that are being weaved by carnival's interlocutors. It demonstrates how Carnival and the Carnivalesque become analytic optics through which the relations of power in the social and political life of subjects who seek to tacitically or strategically vary their given identities, can be productively engaged. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.
Author | : James Gill |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Carnival |
ISBN | : 9781604736380 |
"Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celerated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were largely established in the Civil War era by a white male elite." -- back cover.
Author | : Abner Cohen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520912578 |
Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest street festival," which in 1976 occasioned a bloody confrontation between black youth and the police and which has since become a fiercely contested cultural event. Cohen contrasts the development of the London carnival with the development of other carnivalesque movements, including the Renaissance Pleasure Faire of California. His valuable analysis of these relatively little-explored urban cultural movements advances further the theoretical formulations developed in his previous studies.
Author | : Susan Miller |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780809319220 |
In this study of the status of composition in English studies programs, Miller (English, U. of Utah) notes the institutional marginalization of composition and its teachers, and calls on her associates in composition to engage in a broader political interpretation of composition by persistently critiquing the current agendas of their discipline and reinterpreting its misdirected social history. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR