TY  - BOOK
AU  - Njoku,Raphael Chijioke
TI  - West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism
T2  - Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Ser.
SN  - 9781787447202
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Rochester
PB  - University of Rochester Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. On Origins of Masking -- Chapter 2. Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Chapter 3. Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Chapter 4. Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Chapter 5. Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas -- Chapter 6. Unmasking the Masquerade -- Chapter 7. Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Chapter 8. Memory and Masquerade Narratives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts
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ER  -