Carnival Culture

Carnival Culture
Title Carnival Culture PDF eBook
Author James B. Twitchell
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 322
Release 1992
Genre Art
ISBN 9780231078313

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Examines the changes in publishing, movie making, and television programming since the 1960s that have affected Americans' tastes.

Carnival

Carnival
Title Carnival PDF eBook
Author Milla Cozart Riggio
Publisher Routledge
Pages 344
Release 2004-10-14
Genre History
ISBN 1134487800

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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. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents 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. 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 focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that is rooted in the actual 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.

Trinidad Carnival

Trinidad Carnival
Title Trinidad Carnival PDF eBook
Author Garth L. Green
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 546
Release 2007-03-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0253116724

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Like many Caribbean nations, Trinidad has felt the effects of globalization on its economy, politics, and expressive culture. Even Carnival, once a clandestine folk celebration, has been transformed into a major transnational festival. In Trinidad Carnival, Garth L. Green, Philip W. Scher, and an international group of scholars explore Carnival as a reflection of the nation and culture of Trinidad and Trinidadians worldwide. The nine essays cover topics such as women in Carnival, the politics and poetics of Carnival, Carnival and cultural memory, Carnival as a tourist enterprise, the steelband music of Carnival, Calypso music on the world stage, Carnival and rap, and Carnival as a global celebration. For readers interested in the history and current expression of Carnival, this volume offers a multidimensional and transnational view of Carnival as a representation of Trinidad and Caribbean culture everywhere. Contributors are Robin Balliger, Shannon Dudley, Pamela R. Franco, Patricia A. de Freitas, Ray Funk, Garth L. Green, Donald R. Hill, Lyndon Phillip, Victoria Razak, and Philip W. Scher.

Carnival Art, Culture and Politics

Carnival Art, Culture and Politics
Title Carnival Art, Culture and Politics PDF eBook
Author Michaeline Crichlow
Publisher Routledge
Pages 198
Release 2013-09-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1135751366

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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.

Japan's Carnival War

Japan's Carnival War
Title Japan's Carnival War PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Uchiyama
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 293
Release 2019-03-14
Genre History
ISBN 1107186749

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This cultural history of the Japanese home front during the Asia-Pacific War challenges ideas of the period as one of unrelenting repression. Uchiyama demonstrates that 'carnival war' coexisted with the demands of total war to promote consumerist desire alongside sacrifice and fantasy alongside nightmare, helping mobilize the war effort.

Materializing Bakhtin

Materializing Bakhtin
Title Materializing Bakhtin PDF eBook
Author C. Brandist
Publisher Springer
Pages 216
Release 2000-02-11
Genre Political Science
ISBN 023050146X

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This volume brings together nine essays by established and new scholars from Russia, Britain and North America to explore the historical contexts and current relevance of the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history and linguistics.

Carnival and Culture

Carnival and Culture
Title Carnival and Culture PDF eBook
Author David D. Gilmore
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 268
Release 1998-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780300074802

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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.