One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World

(Part of the Caribbean Studies Series Series)

by Jerrilyn McGregory

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Winner of the 2022 Chicago Folklore Prize

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 Jankun and Charikanari, St. Croix's...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1496834763

ISBN13:9781496834768

Release Date:August 2021

Publisher:University Press of Mississippi

Length:278 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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