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

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

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Description x, 254 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-247) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Carnival -- Trinidad and Tobago.
Carnival -- West Indies.
Trinidadians -- Foreign countries -- Ethnic identity.
West Indians -- Foreign countries -- Ethnic identity.
Trinidad and Tobago -- Social life and customs.
West Indies -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Green, Garth L.
Scher, Philip W., 1965-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0253348234 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253348234 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253218837 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253218834 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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