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One Grand Noise - Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (Hardcover)
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One Grand Noise - Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (Hardcover)
Series: Caribbean Studies Series
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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 Jankunu and Charikanari, St. Croix's
Christmas Carnival Festival, and St. Kitts's Sugar Mas. One Grand
Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World delivers a
highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the use of
spectacular vernacular to metaphorically dramatize such tropes as
""one grand noise,"" ""foreday morning,"" and from ""back-o-town.""
In cultural solidarity and an obvious critique of Western values
and norms, revelers engage in celebratory sounds, often donning
masks, cross-dressing, and dancing with abandon along thoroughfares
usually deemed anathema to them. Folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory
demonstrates how the cultural producers in various island locations
ritualize Boxing Day as a part of their struggles over identity,
class, and gender relations in accordance with time and space.
Based on ethnographic study undertaken by McGregory, One Grand
Noise explores Boxing Day as part of a creolization process from
slavery into the twenty-first century. McGregory traces the holiday
from its Egyptian origins to today and includes chapters on the
Gombey Dancers of Bermuda, the evolution of Junkanoo/Jankunu in the
Bahamas and Belize, and J'ouvert traditions in St. Croix and St.
Kitts. Through her exploration of the holiday, McGregory negotiates
the ways in which Boxing Day has expanded from small communal
traditions into a common history of colonialism that keeps alive a
collective spirit of resistance.
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