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Bacchanal

The Carnival Culture of Trinidad

Peter Mason (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

195 Seiten

1999
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-56639-663-9 (ISBN)

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On the days preceding Ash Wednesday, Trinidad erupts in an orgy of excitement, noise, color, and energy known as carnival. Other countries celebrate carnival, but none quite like Trinidad, where carnival is not just a two-day event; it is an all-year-round statement of identity. Up to 100,000 Trinidadians, or almost 10 percent of the population, actively take part in carnival. Everyone talks and argues about it, some boycott it, but no one ignores it. Calypsonian SuperBlue has called it /u0022one of the most awesome moods in the world./u0022 Trinidadians have a word to describe it: /u0022Bacchanal!/u0022 In this vivid and exuberant book, journalist Peter Mason looks at the past, present, and future of carnival, using not just personal observations an d printed sources but also interviews with a wide variety of participants, including performers, pan tuners, designers, and stick fighters. Mason examines the three essential elements of Trinidadian carnival - steelband, calypso, and masquerade. He also discusses recent developments like the growing influence of women and the effects of commercialism.
As Mason demonstrates, carnival brings together nearly all aspects of Trinidad's cultural identity -- religion, music, language, humor, folk traditions, politics, gender roles, ethnic traditions, even food and sport. It also has an influence, outside the country, on how people view the island as an export in itself. Mason weaves all these facets of carnival together to create a vibrant sense of the phenomenon itself -- its wit and its vulgarity, its sumptuous colors and heart-pounding noise, its competitiveness and spontaneity, the months of hard work to produce two days of exuberant self-abandonment -- all the complex energies that lead to /u0022Bacchanal!/u0022

Peter Mason, a freelance journalist and writer, has written widely in the Guardian, Independent, and Observer newspapers in London. He is a regular visitor to Trinidad an d is currently at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Kaiso! Roots of Calypso The Social Dimension Soca The Carnival Tents The Road to the Crown The Savannah Competitive Edge The Road March 'But Dey Forget Calypso' The International Stage Chutney Soca 2. Steel Pan From Bamboo to Oil Drum 'Behind the Bridge' The Modern Steelband Panorama The Lime Pan Competition Bands and Arrangers Pan and the Community 3. Playing Mas Costume Design Kings and Queens J'Ourvert Morning Carnival Monday Carnival Tuesday Sexual Energy The Decline of Ole Mas The Future of Mas 4. Don't Stop the Carnival! Organisation Tourism Sex and Violence Carnival Controversy 5. Woman is Boss Women and Calypso Calypso Queens Women and Pan 6. Past and Future Stickfighting Influences and Evolution The Indian Influence Exporting Carnival The Balance of Payments Into the Future Notes Bibliography Discography Appendix: Calypso Monarchs Road March Winners Queen of the Bands King of the Bands Band of the Year Panorama Carnival Dates

Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-56639-663-8 / 1566396638
ISBN-13	978-1-56639-663-9 / 9781566396639
Zustand	Neuware