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Making Mas: TruDynasty Carnival Takes Josephine Baker to the Caribbean Carnival
- Author(s):
- Jacqueline Taucar (see profile)
- Date:
- 2012
- Group(s):
- Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture, Performance Studies
- Subject(s):
- Carnivals, Costume design, Performance art--Study and teaching, Postcolonialism
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Womens History Month, Carnival, Gender studies, Performance studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6J92Z
- Abstract:
- Jacqueline Taucar, in conversation with Thea and Dario Jackson, investigates the sculptural qualities of the Josephine Baker Mas for the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Festival in 2011. This article traces the conception, construction, and complexities of choreography for this carnivalesque reimagining of Baker in Paris of the twenties for a contemporary Canadian ambulant expression. This Queen Mas talks back to the objectification by Parisians and embodying Queen Mas as an instance of female empowerment.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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