The Gelede Spectacle

by Babatunde Lawal

Book Overview

This remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. 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. Babatunde Lawal, an art historian and African scholar who has taught in Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States, is himself a Yoruba...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295975997
• ISBN13: 9780295975993
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher