Carnival (eBook, ePUB)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134487790
• Artikelnr.: 47885717

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