Library of DanceCarnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making
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Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making

John Cowley · Cambridge University Press · 1996

Why this source matters

Reconstructs Trinidad carnival from nineteenth-century press records, documenting the masquerade and dance practices that Emancipation-era Afro-Trinidadians created.

Documents these traditions