List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword: Carnival (Theory) after Bakhtin Introduction: Time Out or Time In?: The Urban Communities of Carnival Carnival Timeline Tobago Carnival - From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Part1:
1. The Carnival Story - Then and Now: Introduction to Part 1
2. Cannes Brulees 3. The Trinidad Carnival in the Late Nineteenth Century
4. The Martinican: Dress and Politics in Nineteenth-century Trinidad Carnival 5. Indian Presence in Carnival
6. Chinese in Trinidad Carnival
Part2: Playin' Yuhself - Masking the Other: Tradition and Change in Carnival Masquerades
7. 'Play Mas' - Play Me, Play We: Introduction to Part 2 8. Peter Minshall: A Voice to Add to the Song of the Universe An Interview
9. Amerindian Masking in Trinidad's Carnival: The House of Black Elk in San Fernando 10. The Blue Devils of Paramin: Tradition and Improvisation in a Village Carnival Band 11. Paramin Blue Devils: A Photographic Essay 12. 'The Jouvay Theatre Process': From the Street to the Stage 13. Carnival People, 1998-2002: A Photographic Essay
Part3: Pan and Calypso - Carnival Beats
14. We Jamming It: Introduction to Part 3 15. The Emancipation-Jouvay Tradition and the Almost Loss of Pan 16. Voices of Steel: A Historical Perspective 17. Notes on Pan 18. Reinventing Calypso 19. On Redefining the Nation through Party Music
Part4: Carnival Diaspora 2
0. The Festival Heard Round the World: Introduction to Part 4 21. Globalization in Reverse: The Export of Trinidad Carnival 22. Carnival in Leeds and London, UK: Making New Black British Subjectivities 23. 'New York Equalize You?' Change and Continuity in Brooklyn' Labor Day Carnival 24. Trinidad Carnival Glossary Contributors Works Cited Index