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The Gelede Spectacle - Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture (Paperback)
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The Gelede Spectacle - Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture (Paperback)
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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 and has
taken an active part in Gelede. 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numerous published and unpublished scholarly sources. He casts
significant new light on many previously obscure aspects of Gelede,
and he demonstrates a useful methodological approach to the study
of non-Western art. The book systematically covers the major
aspects of the Gelede spectacle, presenting its cultural background
and historical origins as preface to a vivid and detailed
description of an actual performance. This is followed by a
discussion of the iconography and aesthetics of costume, and an
examination of the sculpted images on the masks. The book concludes
with a discussion of the moral and aesthetic philosophy of Gelede
and its responsiveness to technological and social change. The
Gelede Spectacle is illustrated in color and black-and-white with
over 100 field and museum photographs, including a rare sequence on
the dressing of a masquerader. It offers, in addition, more than 60
Gelede song texts, proverbs, and divination verses, each in the
original Yoruba as well as in translation. Lawal's interpretations
of these pieces indicate the rich complexities of metaphor and
analogy inherent in the Yoruba language and art.
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