{"id":3640,"date":"2011-12-31T23:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T06:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2012-01-01T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T19:06:54","slug":"the-maskers-and-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3640","title":{"rendered":"The Maskers and the Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWnF2kSV02I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dh4zcFEf6No\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krampus\">Krampus <\/a>parades, both from Austrian ski resort towns. To what extent they are underwritten by local tourism authorities I do not know. (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/andy-letcher.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/christmas-customs.html\">folk musician and writer Andy Letcher<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>When I was 16-17 years old, I lived part of each year in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandeville,_Jamaica\">Mandeville, Jamaica<\/a>, up in the hills, during breaks from school in the US.<\/p>\n<p>One Christmas break I was getting a haircut at a second-floor establishment in the center of town when one of the staff glanced out a window and shouted, &#8220;John Canoe! John Canoe!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Immediately everyone rushed to the windows and looked down on the street, where no more than half-a-dozen maskers were dancing down the street. Their appearance must not have been announced in advance, for no one seemed to be waiting to see them.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered if I was seeing a dying tradition. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonkanoo\">Wikipedia says,<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The parade and festivities probably arrived with African slaves. Although Jamaica is credited with the longest running tradition of Jonkanoo, today these mysterious bands with their gigantic costumes appear more as entertainment at cultural events than at random along the streets. Not as popular in the cities as it was 30 years ago, Jonkanoo is still a tradition in rural Jamaica.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was certainly &#8220;at random along the streets.&#8221; There did not seem to be any organized civic or touristic organization behind it all. In a way, that was more cool.<\/p>\n<p>When things get organized and promoted for touristic purposes, the rough edges are smoothed off. Watching the history of the May Day hobby horse processions in Padstow, Cornwall, you can see how the local antagonisms and occasional violence mixed in with the parade are pushed down <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=908\">as it becomes more of a tourist event.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since these Krampus parades occur in ski resort towns, I wonder how much of them is controlled by the maskers themselves and\u00a0 how much by the ski-tourism industry. Re-created or not, at least they speak to archaic understanding of the solstice season not just as fun and feasting but as cold, dark, hunger, and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cabin_fever\">cabin fever<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krampus parades, both from Austrian ski resort towns. To what extent they are underwritten by local tourism authorities I do not know. (Thanks to folk musician and writer Andy Letcher.) When I was 16-17 years old, I lived part of each year in Mandeville, Jamaica, up in the hills, during breaks from school in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,84,43],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-winter","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-WI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12557,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12557","url_meta":{"origin":3640,"position":0},"title":"This Ain&#8217;t Your Film Set-CGI Viking Ship","author":"Chas S. 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