Vol. 9 No. 1 (2025)

Published September 30, 2025
Special Carnival Edition - “The raw-raw magic that comes up from the grassroots”: Carnival Dimensions

Editors: Michelene Adams & Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon

Darrin Gibson, Draft of Headdress, 2025

Introduction

Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon
“The raw-raw magic that comes up from the grassroots”: Carnival Dimensions
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Essays

Tsai-Ann McCarthy
The Art of Taboo Language Usage in Soca and Calypso Music
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Lara Rose
Geraldine Connor, Carnival Messiah and Grassroots Magical Realism
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Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon
“I ain changing meh dialect, meh patois…” : Language Attitudes and Identity in the Carnival Musics of Trinidad and Tobago
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Rebekah Thomas
The Rapso Refrain: Echoes of Resistance, Harmonies of Self
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Bios
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Videos

Kristin Snoddon
A Phenomenology of Deaf People’s Experiences and Understanding of Music at Carnival Time
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Duvone Stewart, Emmanuel Joseph
Pan from the Grassroots
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Gillian Moore
Firetender’s Exhortation -- “Leave She Alone!”
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Krisson Joseph
Carry It
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Reviews and Reflections

Abeo Jackson
From Steam to Soca: UWI Documenting a Musical Shift in Real Time
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Greer Jones-Woodham
Set Design in Pantopia: A Magical Life of Its Own
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Sean Samad
Mas Meets Mangueira: On Carnival, Resistance, and What We Can Learn from Each Other
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Josephine Torrel-Brown
Book Review of Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis by Jessica Swanston Baker. The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
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Acknowledgments