Milla Cozart Riggio

Carnival

Culture in Action - The Trinidad Experience
Herausgeber: Riggio, Milla Cozart

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This beautifully illustrated volume featuring leading writers and experts on carnival, presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival, its traditions, history, music and politics

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Produktdetails

• Worlds of Performance
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780415271295
• ISBN-10: 0415271290
• Artikelnr.: 21699959

Autorenporträt

Milla Cozart Riggio is the James J.Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Her publications and research interests focus on Carnival, medieval drama and Shakespeare and her essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of journals, including The Shakespeare Quarterly and TDR. She is the editor of The Wisdom Symposium, Ta'ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran and Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance. She has also worked as a consultant to the National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago and in 1999 held a government-appointed post on the World Conference on Carnival organising committee in Trinidad.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword: Carnival (Theory) after
Bakhtin Introduction: Time Out or Time In?: The Urban Communities of
Carnival Carnival Timeline Tobago Carnival - From the Nineteenth Century to
the Present Part 1: 1. The Carnival Story - Then and Now: Introduction to
Part 1 2. Cannes Brulées 3. The Trinidad Carnival in the Late Nineteenth
Century 4. The Martinican: Dress and Politics in Nineteenth-century
Trinidad Carnival 5. Indian Presence in Carnival 6. Chinese in Trinidad
Carnival Part 2: Playin' Yuhself - Masking the Other: Tradition and Change
in Carnival Masquerades 7. 'Play Mas' - Play Me, Play We: Introduction to
Part 2 8. Peter Minshall: A Voice to Add to the Song of the Universe An
Interview 9. Amerindian Masking in Trinidad's Carnival: The House of Black
Elk in San Fernando 10. The Blue Devils of Paramin: Tradition and
Improvisation in a Village Carnival Band 11. Paramin Blue Devils: A
Photographic Essay 12. 'The Jouvay Theatre Process': From the Street to the
Stage 13. Carnival People, 1998-2002: A Photographic Essay Part 3: Pan and
Calypso - Carnival Beats 14. We Jamming It: Introduction to Part 3 15. The
Emancipation-Jouvay Tradition and the Almost Loss of Pan 16. Voices of
Steel: A Historical Perspective 17. Notes on Pan 18. Reinventing Calypso
19. On Redefining the Nation through Party Music Part 4: Carnival Diaspora
2 0. The Festival Heard Round the World: Introduction to Part 4 21.
Globalization in Reverse: The Export of Trinidad Carnival 22. Carnival in
Leeds and London, UK: Making New Black British Subjectivities 23. 'New York
Equalize You?' Change and Continuity in Brooklyn' Labor Day Carnival 24.
Trinidad Carnival Glossary Contributors Works Cited Index