Carnaval!

by Barbara Mauldin (Editor)

Carnaval, Carnival, Fasnacht, Entroido - the annual pre-Lenten festival most people in the United States know as Mardi Gras - is celebrated in cities and rural villages throughout Europe and the Americas. With more than 300 photographs, this book offers an international look at Carnival in New Orleans and Basile, Louisiana; Laza, Spain; rural Bulgaria; Venice, Italy; Basel, Switzerland; Tlaxcala, Mexico; Oruro, Bolivia; Recife and Olinda, Brazil; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Genres: Music

352 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

Reviews

[Stella · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was produced in conjunction with a museum exhibition in an effort to document the diversity of peoples and cultures all celebrating the same festival. It is a huge book, with eleven communities represented from ten different countries on three different continents. There are photographs and a lengthy essay for each community event. This was the result of a massive field research undertaking and the final product is impressive. (I will admit to skim reading parts of it!)

[Brad · Rating 2 out of 5]

A shallow picture book with brief descriptions of random carnivals with little to no analysis or even interpretation.