Dr Jordan Fenton

Masquerade and Money in Urban Nigeria

The Case of Calabar

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the economic and spatial importance of performance arts in West Africa through a close analysis of the masquerade culture of Calabar, the capital city of Nigeria's Cross River State.

Produktdetails

• Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 878g
• ISBN-13: 9781648250262
• ISBN-10: 1648250262
• Artikelnr.: 62436395

Autorenporträt

Jordan A. Fenton

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: Setting the Urban Stage Chapter 1:
Introduction, Masquerade as an Artistic Pulse of the City Chapter 2: "Face
No Fear Face:" Unmasking Youths Part II: Space Chapter 3: "If they Burn it
Down, We will Build it Even Larger:" Confrontations of Space Chapter 4:
"People Hear at Night:" Sounds and Secrecy of Nocturnal Performance Chapter
5: "Idagha Chieftaincy was Nothing like what it is today:" The Spectacle of
Public Performance Part III: Money Chapter 6: "We Call it Change:" An
Artistic Profile of Artist Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa Chapter 7: "Look at it,
Touch it, Smell it-this is Nnabo:" Trajectories and Transformations of
"Warrior" Societies Chapter 8: "For this Small Money, I No Go Enter
Competition:" Masquerade Competition on a Global Stage Part IV: Local
Voices Chapter 9: "I know Myself:" Masquerade as an Artistic Transformation
Coda: "I Think About my Kids and Feeding Them" References