Fenton Masquerade and Money in Urban Nigeria

The Case of Calabar
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-421-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 95, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fenton, Jordan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Fenton Jordan:
JORDAN A. FENTON is Associate Professor of Art History at Miami University (Ohio). He has carried out fieldwork in Calabar (Nigeria) since 2008.