- Description
- 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "For many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is one of the world's most celebrated cultural holidays. As a legacy of British colonialism, Boxing Day is observed throughout Africa and parts of the African diaspora, but, unlike Trinidadian Carnival and Mardi Gras, fewer know of Bermuda's Gombey Dancers, Bahamian Junkanoo, Dangriga's Jankunú and Charikanari, St. Croix's Christmas Carnival Festival, and St. Kitts's Sugar Mas. One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the use of spectacular vernacular to metaphorically dramatize such tropes as "one grand noise," "foreday morning," and from "back-o-town." In cultural solidarity and an obvious critique of Western values and norms, revelers engage in celebratory sounds, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and dancing with abandon along thoroughfares usually deemed anathema to them. Folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory demonstrates how the cultural producers in various island locations ritualize Boxing Day as a part of their struggles over identity, class, and gender relations in accordance with time and space. Based on ethnographic study undertaken by McGregory, One Grand Noise explores Boxing Day as part of a creolization process from slavery into the twenty-first century. McGregory traces the holiday from its Egyptian origins to today and includes chapters on the Gombey Dancers of Bermuda, the evolution of Junkanoo/Jankunú in the Bahamas and Belize, and J'ouvert traditions in St. Croix and St. Kitts. Through her exploration of the holiday, McGregory negotiates the ways in which Boxing Day has expanded from small communal traditions into a common history of colonialism that keeps alive a collective spirit of resistance"--
- Series Statement
- Caribbean studies series
- Uniform Title
- One grand noise (Online)
- Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
- Alternative Title
- One grand noise (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-244) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: transmigration of the spirit -- Christmas: Boxing Day eve -- "Military drums remain:" Gombeys, John Canoe, and The 26th -- Junkanoo/Jankunú -- J'ouvert -- "One grand noise" -- Foreday morning -- From "back o'town" -- Conclusion: from carnivalesque to ritualesque.
- ISBN
- 9781496834782
- 9781496834799
- 9781496834805
- 9781496834751
- LCCN
- 2021010549
- OCLC
- ssj0002474288
- Author
McGregory, Jerrilyn.
- Title
One grand noise [electronic resource] : Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean world / Jerrilyn McGregory.
- Imprint
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
- Series
Caribbean studies series
Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-244) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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