Posts tagged Caribbean Studies
Charla de Merienda Presents: Caribbean Carnival Culture

Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is, in the words of Caribbean scholar and theatre maker Errol Hill, “undoubtedly the greatest annual theatrical spectacle of all time”. The earliest Carnival Masqueraders in Trinidad were primarily held by and participated in by landed and slave-owning French whites and free “colored” people, who dressed up and celebrated in the form of balls imported from Europe.

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