Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements

by Abner Cohen

Book Overview

Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest street festival," which in 1976 occasioned a bloody confrontation between black youth and the police and which has since become a fiercely contested cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520078381
• ISBN13: 9780520078383
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"