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The History of Caribbean Carnival: Power, performance and play
The Blues Kitchen Brixton
Carnival isn't what most people think. This talk at The Blues Kitchen pulls apart the real story: plantation roots, emancipation, the rituals that kept resistance alive. Prof Emily Zobel Marshall traces how carnival became a space where communities could answer back to power, flip social rules, and imagine different futures. It's less about the spectacle and more about what it means.
The masquerade traditions, the African practices carried across the diaspora. This is the history beneath the hedonism. Come early enough and you can grab a seat, stick around for the Q&A and actually interrogate the thinking.
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