Trinidad carnival : the cultural politics of a transnational festival / edited by Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Garth L.

Scher, Philip W., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnival--Trinidad and Tobago.

Carnival.

Carnival--West Indies.

Trinidadians--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity.

Trinidadians.

West Indians--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity.

West Indians.

Manners and customs.

Foreign countries.

Ethnicity.

Trinidad and Tobago--Social life and customs.

Trinidad and Tobago.

West Indies--Social life and customs.

West Indies.

Physical Description:

x, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Explores Carnival as a global celebration

Contents:

The invention of traditional mas and the politics of gender / Pamela R. Franco

The masquerader-anthropologist : the poetics and politics of studying carnival / Patricia A. De Freitas

Authenticity, commerce, and nostalgia in the Trinidad carnival / Garth L. Green

When "natives" become tourists of themselves : returning transnationals and the carnival in Trinidad and Tobago / Philip W. Scher

Reading Caribana 1997 : black youth, Puff Daddy, style, and diaspora transformations / Lyndon Phillip

Carnival in Aruba : "a feast of yourself" / Victoria M. Razak

Creativity and politics in the steelband music of Ray Holman, 1959-1972 / Shannon Dudley

"Will calypso doom rock'n'roll?" : the U.S. calypso craze of 1957 / Ray Funk and Donald R. Hill

The politics of cultural value and the value of cultural politics : international intellectual property legislation in Trinidad / Robin Balliger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.

ISBN:

0253348234

9780253348234

0253218837

9780253218834

OCLC:

71189807