Putumayo Presents Carnival (2001)
Posted by Sisca Cute Love U in *Africa*, *Music*, *North America*, *South and Central America*, Barbados, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S.A., Venezuela on Tuesday, February 5, 2008
«Carnival, the ecstatic release of carnal desire in the days leading up to Lent, has a long history. With its roots firmly buried in the Dionysian festivities of ancient Greece, the celebration was appropriated by the Romans for their Bacchanalian homage and then adapted by Roman Catholics to fit pre-Ash Wednesday festivities. Celebrated by Catholics and Bacchanalians alike, contemporary carnival
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