278 pages, 6 13/100 x 9 1/4
25 b&w illustrations
Paperback
Release Date:29 Jul 2021
ISBN:9781496834768
Hardcover
Release Date:29 Jul 2021
ISBN:9781496834775
One Grand Noise
Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World
SERIES:
Caribbean Studies Series
University Press of Mississippi
. delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the use of spectacular vernacular to metaphorically dramatize such tropes as “one grand noise,” “foreday morning,” and from “back o’ town.” In cultural solidarity and an obvious critique of Western values and norms, revelers engage in celebratory sounds, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and dancing with abandon along thoroughfares usually deemed anathema to them. Folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory demonstrates how the cultural producers in various island locations ritualize Boxing Day as a part of their struggles over identity, class, and gender relations in accordance with time and space..
One Grand Noise is a seminal work, a most valuable contribution to the literature about Caribbean festivals and their meanings. . . . McGregory’s approach is original and significant, allowing for these festivals to be explored and interrogated in their own right, not just as Christmas offshoots of the broader, better-known Carnival complex.
In One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World, Jerrilyn McGregory brings together rich scholarship on Boxing Day and carnivalesque events in the Black Atlantic, providing a complete, holistic view of traditional and emergent festivities in a very rich cultural region of the world.
Utilizing well over a decade of travel, Jerrilyn McGregory chronicles Anglican Caribbean festival and performative events that have been underdocumented in African diaspora performance studies. Focusing on Boxing Day and Christmas week festivities, McGregory broadens discussions of Carnival and the carnivalesque, placing Anglican Caribbean traditions in historical context while exploring how these performances help form national identity.
., both published by University Press of Mississippi.