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Island Cultures and Festivals

Island Cultures and Festivals

A Creative Ecosystem

Edited by Evangelia Papoutsaki and Sonjah Stanley Niaah

Published by: The University of the West Indies Press

Series: Sound Culture Series

Imprint: The University of the West Indies Press

254 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm

Paperback
9789766409678
Published: September 2024

£31.00

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A timely contribution to the corpus of island studies scholarship, this collection centres key components of island cultural studies. It emerges from the jointly organized 15th International Small Island Cultures (ISIC) conference staged at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus (2018), and contains selected papers that shine a spotlight on the rich cultural field of island music, art festivals and the creative ecosystem in which they find support. With an interdisciplinary focus, this volume also aims at promoting a critical research agenda for island studies in general. This edited collection is a must read for cultural enthusiasts, students and researchers, as well as entertainment and industry professionals.

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PREFACE: Island Culture Research and the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative

PHILIP HAYWARD

INTRODUCTION: Island Cultures and Festivals: A Creative Ecosystem

SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH AND EVANGELIA PAPOUTSAKI

Part One: Art, Culture and Island Communities

1 Diagnosing Uneven Revitalization Outcomes among Declining Communities in a Japanese Island Art Festival

MENG QU, YACHEN HE, A. D. MCCORMICK, CAROLIN FUNCK

2 The Norseman’s Home: Up-Helly-Aa and Shetland’s Performance of Place

EMMA LANG

3 Mapping Waiheke Island’s Festivalscape:

Community Activism and Festival Reclamation

EVANGELIA PAPOUTSAKI AND JOHN STANFIELD

4 Promoting the “Creole Traditional Wedding” during the Seychelle Creole Festival as a Strategy to Sustain Cultural Traditions

MARIE-CHRISTINE PARENT

Part Two: Music, Dance and Island Identity

5 The Traditional Daur Music and Dance Festival Kumule on the Island Meadow by the Amur River

HOLGER BRIEL

6 Soca, Pleasure and Utopia

SHAUNA RIGAUD

7 Rebel Salute: A Birthday Party the World Attends

MELVILLE COOKE

8 A Celebration of Music, Movement and Memory:

The Archival Significance of St Kitts “Sugar Mas”

STANLEY H. GRIFFIN

9 The Sound of Citizenship: Performance, Politics and Transgression

SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH

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Evangelia Papoutsaki is SICRI co-convenor and executive editor of ePress at Unitec Auckland. Formerly, she was an associate professor at the University of Central Asia and UNESCO PNG chair for Freedom of Expression. Her research focuses on island studies and social change communication in Oceania and Asia Pacific regions.

Sonjah Stanley Niaah, a Jamaican scholar and cultural activist, specializes in dancehall and Black Atlantic performance geographies. She earned the first PhD in cultural studies from the University of the West Indies, Mona. She was the director of the Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit and has authored books on dancehall and contributed to documentaries like Enslaved and Move.