Carnival
Subtitle: theory and practice
By: edited by Christopher Innes, Annabel Rutherford, and Brigitte Bogar
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Subjects: Carnivals; Festivals; Congresses; Carnival
Notes: Papers 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Christopher Innes; title: Contemporary carnival in perspective.  Peter Minshall: "Nignorance & enwhitenment"; title: The African heritage. Modesto Amegago: interrogating the roots, elements, and crossovers of the Caribbean carnival: a case of West African celebrations; title: Henry Lovejoy: drums of Sàngó: bàtia drums and the symbolic reestablishment of the Oyo Empire in colonial Cuba, 1817-1867; title: Sabrina Ensfelder: the African heritage in Trinidad's carnival: from cultural resistance to identity negotiation; title: Caribbean carnival. Jeff Henry: Carnival/masquerade in Trinidad: resistance through performance; title: Teruyuki Tsuji: From Negue Jardin to Jamet: the articulation of carnival in 19th-century Trinidad; title: Jeffrey Chock: The mas I know; title: Suzanne Deborah Burke: Policing the people's festival: state policy and the Trinidad carnival complex; title: The carnival diaspora. Paul Lovejoy: Transformations of masquerades in the African diaspora; title: Phil Scher: The power and pitfalls of carnival as cultural heritage; title: United States. Bruce Boyd Raeburn: Too hip to hope? post-Katrina brass bands and New Orleans carnival; title: Britain. Lesley Ferris: "Designing for the diaspora: images of resistance in contemporary British carnival"; title: Canada. Jerry & Leida Englar: The history of Shadowland and their take back the streets work; title: Donna Coombs-Montrose: Building the carnival arts in Western Canada: the Cariwest experiment; title: Steelpan and carnival. Karen Cyrus: Sounds of the carnival diaspora: amateur steel bands in the QTA; title: Lionel McCalman: Carnival and the steel band in perspective: from multiculturalism to community cohesion: a case study of the Notting Hill Carnival; title: Haroun Shah, áDaniel Bessong, Evangelica Brumant: The impact of "pan around neck": steelpan performances at carnivals in Europe; title: Calypso and carnival. Everard Phillips: The political calypso: a sociolinguistic process in conflict transformation; title: Ray Funk: Sir Lancelot : taking calypso from carnival to nightclubs, Hollywood, and the world; title: Designing and producing carnival. Loyce Arthur: Artists who dare: carnival designers; title: Tony Hall: The jouvay popular theatre process [JPTP]; title: Peter Minshall: working in mase.