Carnival: Culture in Action – The Trinidad Experience (Worlds of Performance)

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This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from all over 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 an enchanting journey exploring the quite a lot of aspects of carnival – its traditions, its history, its music, its politics – and prefaces each and every section with an illuminating essay.

Traditional carnival theory, based principally at 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 at the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that may be rooted in the true festival event.

Carnival details its new theory when it comes to a carnival that may be at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad – the most copied yet least studied major carnival on the earth.

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