You know one of my bucket list wishes is to go see the Rio carnival in Brazil. Whenever I think about the Rio carnival, an array of bright colours take over my mind. There’s a vivid culture and an ...

MIKHAIL Bakhtin's concept of the carnivalesque is a literary and cultural theory that explores how carnival traditions challenge dominant power structures and create spaces for alternative expressions ...

Released in 1964, Martha and the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street” remains one of the iconic anthems of the 1960s, with a message that resonated across the social and political landscape. At its core ...

Def Leppard have shared a carnivalesque music video for their recently released single, "Kick." The video features the band playing the song for a collection of eclectically dressed, Cirque du ...

A dog falls in love with a cat and fights a gang of sharp-dressed sharks in the imaginative video for Arcade Fire‘s “Chemistry,” the band’s latest Everything Now visual. In the Ray Tintori-directed ...

In Neil Jordan’s Carnivalesque, a boy named Andy visits a carnival, and walks into a hall of mirrors. He stops in front of a mirror a little too long; then, he enters the mirror, and his reflection ...

“Love, language and literature build an artistic trinity. Love needs literature to elevate itself and literature needs language to get the medium of expression.” Sami Hossain Chisty, assistant ...