Foreword : Carnival (Theory) after Bakhtin / Richard Schechner -- Introduction : Time Out or Time In? : The Urban Communities of Carnival / Milla Cozart Riggio -- Carnival Timeline / Dawn K. Batson and Milla Cozart Riggio -- Part I. Emancipation, Ethnicity, and Identity in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival : From the Nineteenth Century to the Present -- 1. The Carnival Story-- Then and Now : Introduction to Part I / Milla Cozart Riggio -- 2. Cannes Brulees / J.D. Elder -- 3. The Trinidad Carnival in the Late Nineteenth Century / Bridget Brereton -- 4. The Martinican : Dress and Politics in Nineteenth-century Trinidad Carnival / Pamela R. Franco -- 5. Indian Presence in Carnival / Burton Sankeralli -- 6. Chinese in Trinidad Carnival / Carlisle Chang -- Part II: Playin' Yuhself-- Masking the Other : Tradition and Change in Carnival Masquerades -- 7. "Play Mas"-- Play Me, Play We : Introduction to Part II / Milla Cozart Riggio -- 8. Peter Minshall : A Voice to Add to the Song of the Universe / An Interview by Richard Schechner and Milla C. Riggio -- 9. Amerindian Masking in Trinidad's Carnival : The House of Black Elk in San Fernando / Helene Bellour and Samuel Kinser -- 10. The Blue Devils of Paramin : Tradition and Improvisation in a Village Carnival Band / Martin W. Walsh -- 11. Paramin Blue Devils : A Photographic Essay / Jeffrey Chock -- 12. "The Jouvay Theatre Process" : From the Street to the Stage / Tony Hall -- 13. Carnival People, 1998-2002 : A Photographic Essay / Pablo Delano -- Part III: Pan and Calypso : Carnival Beats -- 14. We jamming it : Introduction to Part III / Milla Cozart Riggio -- 15. The Emancipation-Jouvay Tradition and the Almost Loss of Pan / Earl Lovelace -- 16. Voices of Steel : A Historical Perspective / Dawn K. Batson -- 17. Notes on Pan / Kim Johnson -- 18. Reinventing Calypso / Gordon Rohlehr -- 19. On Redefining the Nation through Party Music / Jocelyne Guilbault -- Part IV : Carnival Diaspora -- 20. The Festival Heard Round the World : Introduction to Part IV / Milla Cozart Riggio -- 21. Globalization in Reverse : The Export of Trinidad Carnival / Keith Nurse -- 22. Carnival in Leeds and London, UK : Making New Black British Subjectivities / Geraldine Connor and Max Farrar -- 23. "New York Equalize You?" : Change and Continuity in Brooklyn's Labor Day Carnival / Philip Kasinitz.