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THE USE OF MASKS IN IGBO THEATRE IN NIGERIA: The Aesthetic Flexibility of Performance Traditions

Author: Ukaegbu, Victor
SKU: PMRT.GEN.1759.00336

$302.85

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780773451759
Publication Date: 2007
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This study examines the aesthetics of Igbo mask theatre in South-Eastern Nigeria. The author contextualizes this art in contemporary Igbo society, at a time of renewed global interest in the theater of masks. The implications of the theaters association with new religions (Islam and Christianity) and the extant vestiges of a traditional religion that has changed beyond recognition.

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