This edited volume contains the selected proceedings of the 15th International Small Island Cultures (ISIC) 2018 Conference jointly organized by The Institute of Caribbean Studies (University of the West Indies), the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative (SICRI) and the Sydney Institute of Music and Sound Research. The resulting anthology focuses on island music and art festivals and engages scholars from different disciplinary fields to share their research and experiences. While the focus is on island festivals, this volume also aims at promoting a critical research agenda for island studies in general.

 

Content

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Forward

Professor Philip Hayward

 

Introduction 

Sonjah Stanley Niaah and Evangelia Papoutsaki  

 

Part One: Art, Culture and Island Communities

 

Chapter One

Diagnosing Uneven Revitalization Outcomes Among Aging Communities in Japan’s Island Art Festival

Meng Qu, Yachen He, A.D.McCormick, Caroline Funck

 

Chapter Two

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

Emma Lang

 

Chapter Three

Mapping Waiheke Island’s Festivalscape: Community Activism and Festival Reclamation

Evangelia Papoutsaki and John Stansfield

 

Chapter Four

Promoting the “Creole Traditional Wedding” During the Creole Festival as a Strategy to Sustain Cultural Traditions

Marie-Christine Parent

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Part Two: Music, Dance and Island Identity

 

Chapter Five

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

Holger Briel and Xi’an Jiaotong

 

Chapter Six

“I feel like a Hulk”: Soca, Pleasure and Utopia

Shauna Rigaud

 

Chapter Seven

Rebel Salute: a Birthday Party the World Attends

Melville Cooke

 

Chapter Eight

A Celebration of Music, Movement and Memory: the Archival Significance of St Kitts ‘Sugar Mas’

Stanley H.Griffin

 

Chapter Nine

Sounding’ the System: Noise, In/Security and the Politics of Citizenship

Sonjah Stanley Niaah

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