Carnival - 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 write by Milla Cozart Riggio. This book was released on 2004. Carnival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Carnival and Culture
Carnival and 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 and Culture write by David D. Gilmore. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Carnival and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the meanings of the Andalusian carnival, focusing in particular on the songs, or coplas. The author offers translations of many of these carnival productions, and contends that they are less about revolution or politics, than about the ambivalence of all human feeling.
Carnival Is Woman
Carnival Is Woman - 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 Is Woman write by Frances Henry. This book was released on 2019-12-30. Carnival Is Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributions by Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Jan de Cosmo, Frances Henry, Jeff Henry, Adanna Kai Jones, Samantha Noel, Dwaine Plaza, Philip W. Scher, and Asha St. Bernard Women are performing an ever-growing role in Caribbean Carnival. Through a feminist perspective, this volume examines the presence of women in contemporary Carnival by demonstrating not only their strength in numbers, but also the ways in which women participate in the event. While decried by traditionalists, the bikinis, beads, and feathers of “pretty mas’” convey both a newly found empowerment as a gendered resistance to oppression from men. Although research on Carnivals is substantial, especially in the Americas, the subject of women in Carnival as a topic of inquiry remains fairly new. These essays address anthropological and historical facets of women and their practices in the Trinidad Carnival, including an analysis of how women’s costuming and performance have changed over time. The modern costumes, which are well within the financial means of most mas’ players, demonstrate the new power of women who can now afford these outfits. In discussing the commodification and erotization of Carnival, the book emphasizes the unveiling of the female body and the hip-rolling sexual movements called winin or it. Through display of their bodies, contemporary women in Carnival express a form of female resistance. Intent on enjoying and expressing themselves, they seem invigorated by their place in the economy, as well as their sexuality, defying the moral controls imposed on them. Through an array of methods in qualitative research, including interviews, participant observation, and ethnography, this volume explains the new power of women in the evolution of Carnival mas’ in Trinidad amid the wider Caribbean diaspora.
Carnival and Other Christian Festivals
Carnival and Other Christian Festivals - 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 Other Christian Festivals write by Max Harris. This book was released on 2003-12-01. Carnival and Other Christian Festivals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colorful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations, with roots reaching back to medieval times, remain vibrant in the high-tech culture of the twenty-first century strongly suggests that they also provide an indispensable vehicle for expressing hopes, fears, and desires that people can articulate in no other way. In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints' day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout Spain and in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad, Bolivia, and Belgium. Paying close attention to the signs encoded in folk performances, he finds in these festivals a folk theology of social justice that—however obscured by official rhetoric, by distracting theories of archaic origin, or by the performers' own need to mask their resistance to authority—is often in articulate and complex dialogue with the power structures that surround it. This discovery sheds important new light on the meanings of religious festivals celebrated from Belgium to Peru and on the sophisticated theatrical performances they embody.
The Cochin Carnival Unveiled
The Cochin Carnival Unveiled - 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 The Cochin Carnival Unveiled write by Neha Agness Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-28. The Cochin Carnival Unveiled available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carnivalesque Rereading of the Cochin Carnival’ makes an interesting write-up on Cochin Carnival which has served as the heart and soul of the culture of Cochin. The Cochin Carnival is held in Fort Kochi every year, which is marked by unforgettable and unlimited fun. The highlight of the carnival, the burning of papanji is a special tradition which made inroads to many other similar festivals all around Kerala. Read more and understand how a small beach fest, which was started by a group of youngsters then, Fort Kochi served to be the beginning of the legacy which the Kochi citizens still continue to celebrate to the fullest every year. As you go through this book, you will earn more about the deep connection of this festival towards the culture and traditions of Kerala, especially Cochin which was ruled by different European powers in the past. You will know that Cochin has always accepted the best and rejected was inappropriate.
