Week of February 15, 2010
In the News: Mardi Gras is here! There’s more to it than just beads and imbibing. Learn about the Carnivals that are celebrated worldwide, traditionally between Epiphany and the start of Lent.
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After the Dance: A Walk through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
By Edwidge Danticat. Crown Publishers, 2002
Call Number: GT4226 .J33 D35 2002
All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival
By Reid Mitchell. Harvard University Press, 1995
Call Number: PS3552 .R718 F37 1997
Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy
By Kevin Fox Gotham. New York University Press, 2007
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary
Bacchanal!: The Carnival Culture of Trinidad
By Peter Mason. Temple University Press, 1998
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 M37 1998
Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture, and Meaning
Edited by Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B. Eicher. Berg, 1998
Call Number: GN433.5 .B43 1998
Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul
By Roger D. Abrahams et al. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
Call Number: GT4211 .N4 B58 2006
Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rule Backward
By Carolyn E. Ware. University of Illinois Press, 2007
Call Number: FT4210 .L8 W37 2007
Caribbean Eye – 9: Caribbean Carnivals (VHS)
Directed by Tony Hall et al. Banyan Archives, 1999?
Call Number: GT4223 .C37 1999 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Carnival: Culture in Action: The Trinidad Experience
Edited by Milla Cozart Riggio. Routledge, 2004
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 C37 2004 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Carnival, American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile
By Samuel Kinser. University of Chicago Press, 1990
Call Number: GT4211 .N4 K56 1990
Carnival, Canboulay, and Calypso: Traditions in the Making
By John Cowley. Cambridge University Press, 1996
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 C69 1998
Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation
By Philip W. Scher. University Press of Florida, 2003
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 S24 2003
Carnival in Rio
By Helmut Teissl. Abbeville Press, 2000
Call Number: GT4233 .R5 T4513 2000
Carnival Music in Trinidad: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
By Shannon Dudley. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: ML3486 .T7 D83 2004
Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945
By Anthony J. Stanonis. University of Georgia Press, 2006
Call Number: G155 .U6 S645 2006
The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel
By Earl Lovelace. Persea Books, 1998
Call Number: PR9727.9 .L6 D72 1998
Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics
By Jocelyn Guilbaut. University of Chicago Press, 2007
Call Number: ML3486 .T7 G85 2007
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
By Langston Hughes. Alexander Street Press, 2005
Call Number: Available online via Twentieth Century North American Drama
Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean
By Gerard Aching. University of Minnesota Press, 2002
Call Number: GT4223 .A2 A25 2002
New Orleans: A Cultural History
By Louise McKinney. Oxford University Press, 2006
Call Number: F379 .N55 M39 2006
Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival
Edited by Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher. Indian University Press, 2007
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 T74 2007