TY  - BOOK
AU  - Njoku,Raphael Chijioke
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism 
T2  - Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora,
SN  - 9781787447202
AV  - GT4289.A358 N56 2020
U1  - 394.26966 23
PB  - University of Rochester Press
KW  - African diaspora
KW  - Masks, African
KW  - Carnival
KW  - West Indies
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Masquerades
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering; Open Access
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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75848/
ER  -