Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements
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Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details 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 police and which has since become a fiercely contested cultural...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520078381
ISBN13:9780520078383
Release Date:April 1993
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:180 Pages
Weight:0.83 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"
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