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

Contributor(s): Green, Garth L | Scher, Philip W, 1965- | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007Description: x, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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 customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 394.250972983 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-247) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.