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...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2021]
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| Series: | Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: transmigration of the spirit
- Christmas: Boxing Day eve
- "Military drums remain:" Gombeys, John Canoe, and The 26th
- Junkanoo/Jankunú
- J'ouvert
- "One grand noise"
- Foreday morning
- From "back o'town"
- Conclusion: from carnivalesque to ritualesque.