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1 online resource (x, 166 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-161) and index. |
| Summary |
Carnival, that celebration of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study provides a microsociological analysis of the processes involved in the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest street festival," which in 1976 occasioned a bloody confrontation between black youth and the British metropolitan police and which has since become a fiercely contested cultural event. Cohen contrasts the development of the London carnival with the development of other carnivalesque movements, including the Renaissance Pleasure Faire of California. His analysis of these relatively little-explored urban cultural movements develops further the theoretical formulations, advanced in his previous studies of ethnic and religious movements, about the dynamic relations between cultural forms and political formations. |
| Contents |
Resurrected London Fair -- Corporate Organisation and the Trinidad Conventions -- Youth Rebellion and the Jamaican Connection -- Carnival is Contested -- Carnival is Contained -- Communal Organisation -- Political Dimension of Art and Music -- Leadership Process -- Politics of Joking Relationships -- Aestheticisation of Politics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Carnival -- Political aspects -- England -- London.
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Carnival -- Political aspects. |
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England -- London. |
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Carnival. |
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West Indians -- England -- London.
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West Indians. |
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Notting Hill (London, England)
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Festivals -- Political aspects.
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Festivals -- Political aspects. |
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Festivals. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cohen, Abner. Masquerade politics. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993 0520078381 (DLC) 92026339 (OCoLC)26304703 |
| ISBN |
9780520912571 (electronic book) |
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0520912578 (electronic book) |
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058515984X (electronic book) |
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9780585159843 (electronic book) |
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0520078381 |
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