Carnival : theory and practice / edited by Christopher Innes, Annabel Rutherford, and Brigitte Bogar.

Other author Innes, Christopher, 1941-
Other author Rutherford, Annabel.
Other author Bogar, Brigitte.
Format Book
Publication InfoTrenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, ©2013.
Descriptionxiii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesHarriet Tubman series on the African diaspora
Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora. ^A1129258
Contents Contemporary carnival in perspective -- Nignorance [sic] & enwhitenment / Peter Minshall -- The African heritage -- Interrogating the roots, elements, and crossovers of the Caribbean carnival : a case of West African celebrations / Modesto Amegago -- The transculturation of Yoruba annual festivals : the Día de reyes in colonial Cuba in the nineteenth century / Henry Lovejoy -- The African heritage in Trinidad's carnival : from cultural resistance to identity negotiation inEarl Lovelace's The dragon can't dance / Sabrina Ensfelder -- Caribbean carnival -- Carnival/masquerade in Trinidad : resistance through performance / Jeff Henry -- "The other half" : the articulation of carnival in nineteenth-century Trinidad / Teruyuki Tsuj -- The mas I know / Jeffrey Chock -- Policing the people's festival : state policy and the Trinidad carnival complex / Suzanne Deborah Burke -- The carnival diaspora -- Transformation of the ékpè masquerade in the African diaspora / Paul Lovejoy -- The power and pitfalls of carnival as cultural heritage / Phil Scher -- Too hip to hop(e)? : post-Katrina brass bands and New Orleans carnival / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Designing for the diaspora : images of Africa in contemporary British carnival / Lesley Ferris -- Shadowland and ecological protest in carnival/caribana / Jerry & Leida Englar -- Building the carnival arts in Western Canada : the Cariwest experiment / Donna Coombs-Montrose -- Steelpan and carnival -- Why they play pan : steel ban communities in the GTA / Karen Cyrus -- Pan-around-neck steel band tradition, the Notting Hill Carnival, and the concept of community cohesion in the UK / Lionel McCalman -- Nostalgia steel band and the impact of "pan-around-neck" at street carnivals in Europe / Haroun Shah -- Calypso and carnival -- The political calypso : a sociolinguistic process in conflict transformation / Everard Phillips -- Sir Lancelot : taking calypso from carnival to nightclubs, Hollywood, and the world / Ray Funk -- Designing and producing carnival -- Artists who dare : contemporary carnival designers / Loyce Arthur -- Jouvay popular theatre process (JPTP) : finding the interior / Tony Hall -- Masman/artist / Peter Minshall.
General notePapers originally presented at an international conference on "Carnival, a people's art and taking back the streets," held in Toronto, July 30-August 3, 2008, to coincide with the Caribana Festival.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011018915
ISBN1592218482 (hardcover)
ISBN9781592218486 (hardcover)
ISBN1592218490 (pbk.)
ISBN9781592218493 (pbk.)

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