Haiti

In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart.

Trinidad & Tobago

This volume explores ways in which Trinidad's history and culture is related to Carnival music. It looks at the genres of calypso, steelband, and soca, and examines how the instruments, sounds, and lyrics of Carnival music provide a sense of national and ethnic identity.

Trinidad & Tobago

In this vivid and exuberant book, journalist Peter Mason looks at the past, present, and future of carnival, using not just personal observations and printed sources but also interviews with a wide variety of participants, including performers, pan tuners, designers, and stick fighters.

Trinidad & Tobago

Starting from the days of slavery and following through to the first decades of the twentieth century, this book traces the evolution of Carnival and secular black music in Trinidad and beyond.

Caribbean

Does the mask reveal more than it conceals? What, this book asks, becomes visible and invisible in the masking practiced in Caribbean cultures-not only in the familiar milieu of the carnival but in political language, social conduct, and cultural expressions that mimic, misrepresent, and mislead?