August 8, 2015

CARNIVAL PROCLAMATIONS

Reading Time 1 minsBakhtin wrote: “Carnival is a pageant without floodlights and without a division into performers and spectators.”   Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, and the putative “father of Carnival Studies.”   “Carnival Proclamation”, the title of a Lord Melody composition. Melody [aka Fitzroy Alexander] was born in Trinidad to a Grenadian mother. A handful of Melody’s calypsoes were performed and recorded by Harry Belafonte. Belafonte’s likeness is featured on a Grenadian postage stamp. Melody’s “Carnival Proclamation” NOTICE   CARNIVAL REGULATIONS THE public is hereby warned that the following acts constitute offences against the law:- (a) Celebrating… Read More »CARNIVAL PROCLAMATIONS