Download or read book The Masquerade Dance written by Carol Ottley-Mitchell and published by Cas. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to dance to the drum drum drum of the masquerades? Well, it is carnival time in St. Kitts-Nevis' carnival and Saulo is excited to see the masquerades perform and dance, and to hear their music. He dreams of dancing the masquerade one day but when the masquerades get too close for comfort, Saulo isn't sure he is ready for his big debut. Inspired by a very real and incredible young man, The Masquerade Dance tells of a boy who is mesmerized by the "drum drum drum" of the masquerade beat and dreams of dancing the masquerade. Look inside to read about this lovely tradition with roots in African, Indigenous Caribbean, and European culture.
Download or read book The Dancing Masquerade written by Femi Abodunrin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel exploring a fictional Nigerian history with strong social, religious and cultural themes running through.
Download or read book The Masquerade s Dance written by Oheta Sophia and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Masquerade's Dance" is a spellbinding tale of mystery and self-discovery. Mia, haunted by fragments of her forgotten past, delves into a world of enigmatic masquerade balls and clandestine societies in search of answers. As she unravels the secrets shrouding her past, Mia confronts the darkness within herself, guided by the Masked Master, a figure both ally and mirror. In a dance with destiny, Mia navigates a labyrinth of shadows and deception, unearthing long-buried truths and facing the echoes of betrayal. With courage and determination, she embraces the unknown, embarking on a journey of redemption and self-realization. "The Masquerade's Dance" is a gripping narrative that explores the depths of the human soul and the power of embracing one's true self amidst the intricacies of fate.
Download or read book Masquerade written by Tivadar Soros and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his years lived under a fake Christian identity during the Nazi occupation of Hungary in the Second World War, including the efforts he put forth to protect his family as well as many other Jews.
Download or read book History Dances written by Ofosuwa M. Abiola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of history is founded on the interrogation of written documents from the past. However, culture is the center of life in Africa. As a result, in the past – and to a degree in the present – the process for documenting events in Africa was not written, it was performed. History Dances: Chronicling the History of Traditional Mandinka Dance argues that a wealth of information is housed within traditional Mandinka dance and, consequently, the dances can be used as an African-derived primary source for writing African history. Ofosuwa M. Abiola highlights the overall value of studying Mandinka dance history specifically, and African dance history generally, as well as addressing the issue of scarcity with regard to primary sources for writing African history. History Dances proves to be a vital read for both undergraduate students and scholars in the fields of dance history, African history, performance studies, and cultural anthropology.
Download or read book Chioma and the Masquerade written by Kathy Adinma and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Chioma and the Masquerade is drawn from a typical Nigerian Igbo setting, where children gather under a tree on a moonlight night and are told beautiful stories laced with strong moral lessons. Parents, grandparents, or other adults find joy in storytelling, and the children look forward to these happy times. The stories are sometimes dramatized, and the excited voices of the children can be heard as they sang along with hearty clapping and dancing. This book teaches children the need to work hard and obey their parents. It also highlights the bad habit of telling lies and why good children should not lie. The rich culture of the new Yam Festival is shown. It is a time of thanksgiving to the good Lord for his great goodness, blessings, and mercies. It is a time of merriment with rich music and good food and exchange of visits between friends and families. The village square is the center of attraction, and people come from different parts of the villages to watch the dances, masquerades, local wrestling, and arts and crafts. The author wishes the children a happy reading and hope they will learn to be good, truthful, and obedient children.
Download or read book Jim Henson s Labyrinth Masquerade 1 written by Jim Henson and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is not as it seems with the guests of Jareth’s famous Masquerade, as one participant slowly awakens to the reality of her topsy-turvy existence in the Goblin Kingdom when Sarah shatters the glass mirrors during her escape. But as this mysterious participant puts together the pieces, her discoveries threaten to unravel everything!
Download or read book Weighing the Cost of Pin making written by Ulli Beier and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weighing the Cost of Pin-Making presents a review of the captivating conversations between the late Ulli Beier and major African thinkers. Ulli Beier was a renowned Scholar of African Studies, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria. Luminaries interviewed include Chinua Achebe, 1986 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Rowland Abiodun and Ibrahim El Salahi. Covering topics as wide ranging as the question of African and individual identity to the immeasurable power of women, the varied life and interests of Ulli Beier are explored.
Download or read book Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories written by S. Aderinto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children—one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule.
Download or read book Masquerade written by Deborah Bell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its conventional meaning, masquerade refers to a festive gathering of people wearing masks and elegant costumes. But traditional forms of masquerade have evolved over the past century to include the representation of alternate identities in the media and venues of popular culture, including television, film, the internet, theater, museums, sports arenas, popular magazines and a range of community celebrations, reenactments and conventions. This collection of fresh essays examines the art and function of masquerade from a broad range of perspectives. From African slave masquerade in New World iconography, to the familiar Guy Fawkes masks of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to the branded identities created by celebrities like Madonna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga, the essays show how masquerade permeates modern life.
Download or read book Ballet of The Crypt Dancer written by A L Mengel and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Show is About to Begin...When a mysterious ballet theatre surfaces in Paris, people are drawn to the stage productions with a magnetic force. Captivated dancers hastily audition for the grand creations with a sheer disregard for the terror which is rumored to reside within the theatre. A sense of dread permeates the company as the lines between illusion and reality are obscured, when one of the performers is thought to be a danseur de la crypt...a nefarious villain who carries out justice for the immortals. As the company prepares for the spellbinding production of Les Ballerines de la Crypte, members of the company start to disappear. Rumors of "The Crypt Dancer" soar through the performers, and throughout the world, as an increasing amount of immortals are banished to "coffin sentences" for centuries; tormented in crypts, bound in chains with beating hearts, fully aware of the darkness and solitude which surrounds them. At the center of the story is Ramiel, an alluring immortal from Rome, raised in Italian culture and Catholic traditions. He travels to Paris to pursue his artistic dreams, and after, to America, to fulfill an immortal doctrine, The Code of the Immortals. In America, he finds fellow immortal, Antoine, struggling as his sector is in turmoil, overrun by a coven of witches whose true purpose is shrouded in secrecy.Ramiel must return to his past...back to the days when he performed the Ballet of The Crypt Dancer...to raise the immortals back to their renewed strength. A.L. Mengel returns to the enigmatic world of The Tales of Tartarus with a tale of phantoms and masquerades, voodoo and witchcraft, juxtaposed with the enigmatic impression of immortality.
Download or read book Playful Performers written by David Binkley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African children develop aesthetic sensibilities at an early age, roughly from four to fourteen years. By the time they become full-fledged adolescents they may have had up to ten years experience with various art forms--masking, music, costuming, dancing, and performance. Aesthetic learning is vital to their maturation. The contributors to this volume argue that the idea that learning the aesthetics of a culture only occurs after maturity is false, as is the idea that children wearing masks is only play, and is not to be taken seriously.Playful Performers is a study of children's masquerades in Africa. The contributors describe specific cases of young children's masking in the areas of west, central, and southern Africa, which also happen to be the major areas of adult masquerading. The volume reveals the considerable creativity and ingenuity that children exhibit in preparing costumes, masks and musical instruments, and in playing music, dancing, singing, and acting. The book includes over 50 pages of black and white photographs, which illustrate and elaborate upon the authors' main points. The editors describe general categories of children's masquerades. In each of the three masking categories children's relationships to their parents and other adults differ, from a close relationship to some independence to almost complete independence. No other major work has covered this aspect of African children at this age level. The book offers a challenging perspective on young children, seeing them as active agents in their own culture rather than passive recipients of culture as taught by parents and other elders. It will be interesting reading for anthropologists, art historians, educators, and African studies specialists alike.
Download or read book Masquerade written by Anne Shade and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem, New York, 1925 is a mecca of cultural and creative freedom, where masquerade drag balls are all the rage and the music, dancing, and loose prohibition laws unite people from all walks of life. Dinah Hampton came to Harlem for better opportunities for her family but ends up working as a nightclub chorus girl to help make ends meet. Among the nightlife and danger, she finds love in the most unexpected way. When a scandal rocks Celine Montre’s family and sends them fleeing from New Orleans to Harlem, the gorgeous Dinah Hampton helps her to discover that there’s more to life, and love, than she ever thought possible. When a notorious gangster sets her sights on seducing Celine, Dinah and Celine are forced to risk their hearts, and lives, for love.
Download or read book The Modernist Masquerade written by Colleen McQuillen and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period of rich literary and theatrical experimentation. The first study of its kind, The Modernist Masquerade examines the cultural history of masquerades in Russia and their representations in influential literary works. The masquerade's widespread appearance as a literary motif in works by such writers as Anna Akhmatova, Leonid Andreev, Andrei Bely, Aleksandr Blok, and Fyodor Sologub mirrored its popularity as a leisure-time activity and illuminated its integral role in the Russian modernist creative consciousness. Colleen McQuillen charts how the political, cultural, and personal significance of lavish costumes and other forms of self-stylizing evolved in Russia over time. She shows how their representations in literature engaged in dialog with the diverse aesthetic trends of Decadence, Symbolism, and Futurism and with the era's artistic philosophies.
Download or read book The Esan People of Nigeria West Africa written by Eve Ikuenobe-Otaigbe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is mainly an editorial compilation of excerpts from different authors, yours truly included. As such, I do not claim original authorship of some of the content. I want to thank Prof Simon Ehiabhi, Mr. Iseribhor Okhueleigbe, Mr. Sylvester Omosun, Dr. Ayodele Akinrinwale and Dr. Tamuno Takena for their permission and excitement upon being broached to use some of their works in this editorial piece. They are truly great sons of Esan land. Thanks to Dr. Francisca Isi Asowa-Omorodion for her very insightful article. This is a big shout-out to the ESAN PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA, GA, for their participation in writing this book, in particular, Mrs. Bridget Oghina and my mother, Mama R.B IKUENOBE.
Download or read book Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame written by B. Tangwa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, in close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so doing they have developed cultures, values, attitudes and perspectives to the problems, ethical and otherwise, that have arisen from the existential pressures of their situation. The problem, however, is that such values and perspectives do not necessarily form coherent ethical theories. Theory-making is a second order activity requiring a certain amount of leisure and comfort which the existential conditions of life on the African continent have not easily permitted in the retrospect-able past. The elements of African bioethics are to be found in its cultural values, traditions, customs and practices. These are research-able, highlight-able and usable by those who would. The bioethical problems of our current global existential situation are such that all possible solutions, no matter their provenance, ought to be tried. Western culturehas far too loud a voice combined with deaf ears in contemporary ethical discourse. But it should never be forgotten that other cultureshave their own word to say and that alternative values, ways of thinking and practices exist, and attempt should always be made to bring these out and to highlight them, if they could possibly contribute to the satisfactory solution of a global problem. This book brings together various papers on bioethical issues and problems, written at different times, some previously published, each of which attempts to bring out some Africanelements, perspective or concern. The African narrative style predominates through these essays but their framing conforms, more or less, to the Western paradigm for presenting academic issues.
Download or read book Society and the Dance written by Paul Spencer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting seven examples from Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Oceania, this study attempts to further the anthropological understanding of dance's social significance and critical relevance by exploring it as a reflection of social forces.
