Carnival in Trinidad: Then and Now

I don't mean to sound like an Old Fart, but the 1957 Carnival just seems to me so much more charming and weird and ingenious--look at those bipedal seahorses with the mermaid--than the current version, which seems to be about nothing more than bare flesh. Maybe the 2015 videographer simply did not film the weird costumes--but then again, every other video of the 2015 carnival on YouTube features the exact same stuff. Now, I like bare flesh as much as the next voyeur, but I would really prefer to see a papier-mache Godzilla any day.

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Someone would add papier-mâché boobs to everything Paul 😊

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 01/10/16 at 04:59 PM

Some of the older Carnival tradition lives on as as the Mummers' Parade in Philadelphia, even though the roots are different. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Parade

Posted by Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D. on 01/10/16 at 09:10 PM

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