Caribbean Carnival

E946801
cultural event festival tradition street festival

Caribbean Carnival is a vibrant festival tradition across the Caribbean and its diaspora, featuring elaborate costumes, music, dance, and street parades rooted in African and European cultural influences.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Caribana 1
Caribbean carnival celebrations 1
Carnival in the Caribbean 1

Statements (96)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural event ⓘ
festival tradition ⓘ
street festival ⓘ
artForm calypso songwriting ⓘ
costume design and construction ⓘ
mas making ⓘ
soca production ⓘ
steelpan performance ⓘ
wire-bending ⓘ
associatedWith Carnival Monday and Tuesday ⓘ
Crop Over NERFINISHED ⓘ
Emancipation celebrations ⓘ
Junkanoo NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lucian Carnival NERFINISHED ⓘ
Spicemas NERFINISHED ⓘ
Trinidad and Tobago Carnival NERFINISHED ⓘ
Vincy Mas NERFINISHED ⓘ
pre-Lenten period ⓘ
celebratedIn Antigua and Barbuda NERFINISHED ⓘ
Aruba NERFINISHED ⓘ
Barbados NERFINISHED ⓘ
Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ
Caribbean diaspora communities ⓘ
Curaçao NERFINISHED ⓘ
Dominica NERFINISHED ⓘ
Grenada NERFINISHED ⓘ
Haiti NERFINISHED ⓘ
Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ
Saint Kitts and Nevis NERFINISHED ⓘ
Saint Lucia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines NERFINISHED ⓘ
The Bahamas NERFINISHED ⓘ
Trinidad and Tobago NERFINISHED ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
featuresCostumes beaded costumes ⓘ
feathered costumes ⓘ
traditional characters ⓘ
wire-bending constructions ⓘ
hasCulturalInfluence African traditions ⓘ
British colonial culture ⓘ
Catholic pre-Lenten customs ⓘ
European traditions ⓘ
French colonial culture ⓘ
Spanish colonial culture ⓘ
hasCulturalOrigin Caribbean region ⓘ
hasElement Jouvert celebration ⓘ
calypso monarch competitions ⓘ
calypso performance ⓘ
costume bands ⓘ
costume design ⓘ
dance ⓘ
king and queen of the bands competitions ⓘ
live music ⓘ
mas bands ⓘ
masquerade ⓘ
panorama competitions ⓘ
soca performance ⓘ
sound systems ⓘ
steelband performance ⓘ
street parade ⓘ
hasTheme community celebration ⓘ
cultural identity ⓘ
freedom from slavery ⓘ
resistance to oppression ⓘ
satire and social commentary ⓘ
notableDiasporaCarnival Boston Caribbean Carnival GENERATED ⓘ
Brooklyn West Indian Day Parade GENERATED ⓘ
Miami Carnival GENERATED ⓘ
Notting Hill Carnival GENERATED ⓘ
Toronto Caribbean Carnival GENERATED ⓘ
rootedIn African masking traditions ⓘ
Catholic Carnival season ⓘ
European masquerade balls ⓘ
post-emancipation celebrations ⓘ
socialFunction diaspora community building ⓘ
economic activity generator ⓘ
expression of Caribbean identity ⓘ
tourism attraction ⓘ
timeOfYear often held before Lent ⓘ
sometimes held in summer ⓘ
varies by island ⓘ
traditionalCharacter Blue Devil NERFINISHED ⓘ
Dame Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ
Jab Jab NERFINISHED ⓘ
Midnight Robber NERFINISHED ⓘ
Moko Jumbie NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pierrot Grenade NERFINISHED ⓘ
typicalDanceStyle chip dancing ⓘ
wining ⓘ
typicalMusicGenre calypso ⓘ
chutney soca ⓘ
dancehall ⓘ
reggae ⓘ
soca ⓘ
steelpan music ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

mas bands (masquerade bands) → hasCulturalContext → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
subject surface form: mas bands
mas bands (masquerade bands) → hasCulturalContext → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
subject surface form: mas bands
this entity surface form: Jamaica Carnival
Rake-and-scrape → performanceContext → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Goombay festivals
Junior Carnival Parade → partOf → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Caribbean carnival celebrations
Carnival in Saint Kitts → relatedTo → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Carnival in the Caribbean
Afro-Lucians → culturalTradition → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
Carifiesta in Montreal → relatedTo → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
Black culture → hasHolidayOrFestival → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
present-day Toronto, Ontario, Canada → hasMajorEvent → Caribbean Carnival ⓘ
subject surface form: Toronto
this entity surface form: Caribana