One Grand Noise
Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World
For many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is one of the world's most celebrated cultural holidays. As a legacy of British colonialism, Boxing Day is observed throughout Africa and parts of the African diaspora, but, unlike Trinidadian Carnival and Mardi Gras, fewer know of Bermuda's Gombey dancers, Bahamian Junkanoo, Dangriga's Jankunú and Charikanari, St. Croix's Crucian Christmas Festival, and St. Kitts's Sugar Mas. One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the use of spectacular vernacular to metaphorically dramatize such tropes a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4968-3478-2
- EAN: 9781496834782
- Produktnummer: 37097518
- Verlag: Severn House
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: EPUB Single
- Abbildungen: 25 b&w illustrations
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Jerrilyn McGregory
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