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Masquerade Politics - Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements (Hardcover)
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Masquerade Politics - Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements (Hardcover)
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This study explores the dynamic relations between cultural forms
and political formations in some urban cultural movements. The
analysis is based on a detailed study of the structure and
development of the London Notting Hill Carnival, widely described
as Europe's biggest street festival. Started in 1966 as a
small-scale, multi-ethnic local festival, it grew into a massive
West-Indian dominated affair that over the years occasioned violent
confrontations between black youth and the police. The carnival
developed and mobilized a homogenous and communal West-Indian
culture that helped in the struggle against rampant racism. The
celebration is contrasted with other carnival movements, such as
California's 'Renaissance Pleasure Faire'. Analytically, this is a
follow-up to Cohen's earlier studies of the relations between drama
and politics in some urban religious, ethnic and elitist movements
in Africa. The conclusion focuses on the processes underlying the
transformation of rational political strategies into non-rational
cultural forms.
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