Gelede Spectacle
Gelede Spectacle This remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. Babatunde Lawal, an art historian and…
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Gelede Spectacle
This remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. Babatunde Lawal, an art historian and African scholar who has taught in Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States, is himself a Yoruba and has taken an active part in Gelede. It focuses on Gelede, a popular community festival of masquerade, dance, and song, held several times a year by the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria and the Republic of Benin.
He casts significant new light on many previously obscure aspects of Gelede, and he demonstrates a useful methodological approach He writes from the perspective of an informed participant/observer of his own culture.Lawal bases his book on extensive field research; observations and interviews; conducted over more than two decades as well as on numerous published and unpublished scholarly sources.
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