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Power, Performance and Play an International Conference on Caribbean Carnival Cultures WEST INDIAN 19 – 21 May 2017 CARNIVAL CENTRE FOR CULTURE & THE ARTS Power, Performance and Play An International Conference on Caribbean Carnival Cultures WEST INDIAN 19 – 21 May 2017 CARNIVAL Booklet of Abstracts Contents Arthur France MBE and Colleagues The Carnival Rebels in Leeds, UK: On the Road for 50 Years ........................................................ 1 Dr Beccy Watson and Sabina Khan ‘We representing …’: Perceptions of the significance of RJC Dance at Leeds West Indian Carnival .......................................................................................................................................... 2 Camille Quamina and Marvin George In Search of the Third Actor - Amidst Community, the Contemporary, and the Classic .............. 4 Gervais Marsh ‘Mi Jus Come Fi Play Ah Mas’: Engaging Soca Music and Carnival Spaces as Sites for the Performance of Quare Caribbean Catharsis ................................................................................. 5 Sam Pearce, Cindy Willcock and Yandiswa Mazwana eMzantsi-pation! Can the practice of carnival create and sustain an egalitarian culture in the profoundly unequal society of Cape Town? ................................................................................. 7 Kai Barratt ‘We own something that’s worth more than oil and gold’: Transporting the Trinidad Fete Model to Jamaica .......................................................................................................................... 9 Paul Miskin Thoughts on Carnival Authenticity and Integrity, Tourism and Planetary Well-being ............... 10 Adeola Dewis Mas’: A Journey Towards a Definition ........................................................................................ 12 Natalie Zacek The Carnivalesque Before The Carnival: Samuel Augustus Mathews as Trickster, Masquerader and Man of Words ...................................................................................................................... 13 Emily Zobel Marshall ‘My Tongue is the Blast of a Gun’: The Midnight Robber and the Carnival Trickster Tradition . 14 Shabaka Thompson The Emergence of a Tangible Carnival Industry .......................................................................... 15 Zakiya Mckenzie Carnival and the Politics of Emancipation and Practices of Resistance ...................................... 16 Eintou Pearl Springer Carnival and the Politics of Emancipation and Practices of Resistance ...................................... 17 Max Farrar Solidarity, Jouissance, and the Free Carnival .............................................................................. 18 Guy Farrar and colleagues Harrison Bundey on the Road: Social Comment, Performance and Humour in Carnival Style .. 19 Ekeama S. Goddard-Scovel ‘Machel Selling Rum, And Iwer Selling Boat Ride’: Commercialization and Carnival Musics ..... 21 Darrell Baksh ‘When Last Yuh Went To Party An’ De Music Grip Yuh?’: Reviving Retro Aesthetics in the Soca Chutney Bacchanal ...................................................................................................................... 23 Meagan Sylvester ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’: Locating Trinidadian identity in the soundscapes of Trinidad’s music Calypso and Soca .............................................................................................................. 24 Karen Mears and Celia Burgess-Macey Diasporic identity and Creativity: Children performing and playing in Carnivals in the Caribbean and the UK. .................................................................................................................................. 25 Natalie Creary-Aninakwa Carnival as a site for conviviality, pleasure and social cohesion ................................................. 28 Emily Kate Timms ‘Like an Earthquake in Motion’: Revising Older People’s Roles in Carnival Culture in Pauline Melville’s The Migration of Ghosts ............................................................................................. 29 Nikoli Attai ‘Ah Come Out to Play’: How Caribbean Bullers Use Trinidad and Tobago Carnival to Resist Dominant Heteronormativity Politics ......................................................................................... 31 Giuseppe Sofo Jouvay of a Culture: Performance and Resistance in Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival ............... 33 Leah Gordon Jamet Studies: Beingness in Contemporary Trinidad – The Way of the Jamet .......................... 34 Cathy Thomas Defiling the Fête: The Utopian Potential of Drag, Disease and Diaspora in Oonya Kempadoo’s Carnival Imaginary ....................................................................................................................... 35 Christian Høgsbjerg ‘The Independence, Energy and Creative Talent of Carnival Can Do Other Wonders’: C.L.R. James on Carnival ........................................................................................................................ 36 Claire Westall Calypso and Cricket, Earl Lovelace and CLR James: Or, the Carnivalizing of Performativity, Responsibility and Political Becoming ......................................................................................... 38 Victoria Jaquiss The Importance of Live Steelbands at Carnival ........................................................................... 40 Andrew R. Martin Steelpan Tourism in the Twenty-first Century: Carnival and diasporic identities, transcultural relationships and the commercialization of Carnival. ................................................................. 42 Jared Allen The History and Pedagogy of Trinidad’s Junior Panorama: Forging the Steelpan Tradition for Future Generations ..................................................................................................................... 44 Hughbon Condor and family ‘The flight of the Condors’: nearly 50 years of three generations of carnival costume design .. 45 Lawrence Scott, Patricia Murray and Polly Pattullo Celebrating 25th Anniversary of a Caribbean Classic ................................................................... 47 Keith Nurse, Suzanne Burke, Joanne Briggs and Nestor Sullivan The Trinidad Carnival Complex: Creating New Pathways for Constructing Socio-Spatial Identity ..................................................................................................................................................... 48 Danalee Jahgoo The Role of Calypso and Sailor ‘Mas’ in resisting American neo-imperialism in Trinidad, 1945- 1960 ............................................................................................................................................. 50 Rudolph Otley The Globalization of Calypso ....................................................................................................... 51 Chris Slann and Frankie Goldspink Colliding Cultures: (Local) Power, Politics and Empowerment ................................................... 54 Jeanefer Jean-Charles and Liz Pugh Spotlight on Manchester Day – civic celebration in the public realm ........................................ 55 Angela Chappell Analysing 42 years of the Arts Council’s funding and supporting of Caribbean Carnival in England ........................................................................................................................................ 57 Khadijah Ibrahiim, Malika Booker and David Hamilton Creative Writing and Dance: An Interacted Workshop ............................................................... 59 Rudolph Ottley Carnival and the Body ................................................................................................................. 61 Ann-Marie Simmonds From ‘Styley Tight’ to ‘Kick in she back door’: An Antiguan Band’s Discourse on Women’s Bodies. ......................................................................................................................................... 62 Réa de Matas Diasporic Culture: The Sensory and Embodied Experience of Negotiating Space, Place and Identities through UK Carnival Festivities ................................................................................... 63 Adela Ruth Tompsett Roots and Routes: African Retentions and Influence in the Caribbean-derived Carnival .......... 65 Tola Dabiri Our Archives, Ourselves .............................................................................................................. 66 Mahalia France and colleagues Family life and Intergenerational Issues in the Leeds Carnival ................................................... 67 Keri Johnson A Manus ut Machina (From Man to Machine): An Examination of the Commercialization of the Trinidad & Tobago Carnival Masquerade.................................................................................... 68 Abby Tinica Taylor The Commercialization of Carnival: Tobago’s Mudern Mud ...................................................... 69 Arthur France MBE and Colleagues The Carnival Rebels in Leeds, UK: On the Road for 50 Years This key panel will allow some of the founding members of the Leeds Carnival to explain why they created the first Caribbean-style street carnival in Europe, 50 years ago, in 1967. They will be in conversation with Dr Max Farrar, who has photographed the Leeds carnival since 1972 and participated in the Leeds carnival since the early 1980s. The panellists were the original carnival rebels, insisting against some opposition within the Leeds Caribbean community that a carnival was necessary and possible, despite the
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