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Title

Carnival : culture in action : the Trinidad experience / edited by Milla Cozart Riggio.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Riggio, Milla Cozart.

Description

xvi, 322 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Traditional carnival theory, based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner, has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend, offering a re-definition of 'carnival' that is focused not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but one that is rooted in the actuality of the festival event. Carnival details its new theory in terms of a carnival that is at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad-the most copied yet least studied major carnival in the world. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio has compiled a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions, its history, its music, its politics - and prefaces each section with an illuminating essay. This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock"--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Worlds of performance

Uniform Title

Worlds of performance.

Subject

• Carnival > Trinidad
• Trinidad > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-306) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword : Carnival (Theory) after Bakhtin / Richard Schechner -- Introduction : Time Out or Time In? : The Urban Communities of Carnival / Milla Cozart Riggio -- Carnival Timeline / Dawn K. Batson and Milla Cozart Riggio -- Part I. Emancipation, Ethnicity, and Identity in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival : From the Nineteenth Century to the Present -- 1. The Carnival Story-- Then and Now : Introduction to Part I / Milla Cozart Riggio -- 2. Cannes Brulees / J.D. Elder -- 3. The Trinidad Carnival in the Late Nineteenth Century / Bridget Brereton -- 4. The Martinican : Dress and Politics in Nineteenth-century Trinidad Carnival / Pamela R. Franco -- 5. Indian Presence in Carnival / Burton Sankeralli -- 6. Chinese in Trinidad Carnival / Carlisle Chang -- Part II: Playin' Yuhself-- Masking the Other : Tradition and Change in Carnival Masquerades -- 7. "Play Mas"-- Play Me, Play We : Introduction to Part II / Milla Cozart Riggio --^
• 8. Peter Minshall : A Voice to Add to the Song of the Universe / An Interview by Richard Schechner and Milla C. Riggio -- 9. Amerindian Masking in Trinidad's Carnival : The House of Black Elk in San Fernando / Helene Bellour and Samuel Kinser -- 10. The Blue Devils of Paramin : Tradition and Improvisation in a Village Carnival Band / Martin W. Walsh -- 11. Paramin Blue Devils : A Photographic Essay / Jeffrey Chock -- 12. "The Jouvay Theatre Process" : From the Street to the Stage / Tony Hall -- 13. Carnival People, 1998-2002 : A Photographic Essay / Pablo Delano -- Part III: Pan and Calypso : Carnival Beats -- 14. We jamming it : Introduction to Part III / Milla Cozart Riggio -- 15. The Emancipation-Jouvay Tradition and the Almost Loss of Pan / Earl Lovelace -- 16. Voices of Steel : A Historical Perspective / Dawn K. Batson -- 17. Notes on Pan / Kim Johnson -- 18. Reinventing Calypso / Gordon Rohlehr -- 19. On Redefining the Nation through Party Music / Jocelyne Guilbault --^
• Part IV : Carnival Diaspora -- 20. The Festival Heard Round the World : Introduction to Part IV / Milla Cozart Riggio -- 21. Globalization in Reverse : The Export of Trinidad Carnival / Keith Nurse -- 22. Carnival in Leeds and London, UK : Making New Black British Subjectivities / Geraldine Connor and Max Farrar -- 23. "New York Equalize You?" : Change and Continuity in Brooklyn's Labor Day Carnival / Philip Kasinitz.

ISBN

• 0415271290 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415271282 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004001267

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library