Carnival Art, Culture and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carnival Art, Culture and Politics write by Michaeline Crichlow. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Carnival Art, Culture and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these performances. The authors review Carnival’s performative aspects not merely as a calendrical festival, but rather center attention on the relationship between carnival and everyday life, and on how people negotiate their social spaces and possibilities in the context of modern power. The book therefore seeks to highlight the knotted time-spaces of power and to demonstrate the dynamic interplay between state spaces and people’s spaces that are being weaved by carnival's interlocutors. It demonstrates how Carnival and the Carnivalesque become analytic optics through which the relations of power in the social and political life of subjects who seek to tacitically or strategically vary their given identities, can be productively engaged. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.
Governing Sound
Governing Sound - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governing Sound write by Jocelyne Guilbault. This book was released on 2007-09-15. Governing Sound available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written in two parts, part 1 explores the development of Calypso, from it's emergence in the pre-colonial period to the post colonial period. In part 2, the focus is on the new Carnival musical practices of soca, rapso, chutney, soca and ragga soca, and the ways in which they contirbuted to the redefination of Trinidadian cultural politics in the neoliberal era. The new rationailities, contigencies, desires and musical experments that animated the new musics and enabled them to gradually displace calypso from its centrality as national expression is examined.
Masquerade Politics
Masquerade Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masquerade Politics write by Abner Cohen. This book was released on 2023-04-28. Masquerade Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest street festival," which in 1976 occasioned a bloody confrontation between black youth and the police and which has since become a fiercely contested cultural event. Cohen contrasts the development of the London carnival with the development of other carnivalesque movements, including the Renaissance Pleasure Faire of California. His valuable analysis of these relatively little-explored urban cultural movements advances further the theoretical formulations developed in his previous studies.
Carnival Culture
Carnival Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carnival Culture write by James B. Twitchell. This book was released on 1992. Carnival Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the changes in publishing, movie making, and television programming since the 1960s that have affected Americans' tastes.
Carnival and Power
Carnival and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carnival and Power write by Vicki Ann Cremona. This book was released on 2018-01-30. Carnival and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics, where the playful, participatory aspects are appropriated by countervailing forces seeking to influence, control, channel or redirect power. Focusing specifically on the Maltese islands, a tiny European archipelago situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, this work links the contrast between play and power to other Carnival realities across the world. It examines the question of power and identity in relation to different social classes and environments of Carnival play, from streets to ballrooms. It looks at satire and censorship, unbridled gaiety and controlled celebration. It describes the ways Carnival was appropriated as a power channel both by the British and their Maltese subjects, and ultimately how it was manipulated in the struggle for Malta’s independence.
