Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Preface and Acknowledgments

pp ix-xii

Part One - Setting the Urban Stage

pp xiii-xiv

Chapter One - Introduction: Masquerade as an Artistic Pulse of the City

pp 1-31

Chapter Two - “Face No Fear Face”: Unmasking Youths

pp 32-70

Part Two - Space

pp 71-72

Chapter Three - “If They Burn it Down, We Will Build it Even Larger”: Confrontations of Space

pp 73-112

Chapter Four - “People Hear at Night”: Sounds and Secrecy of Nocturnal Performance

pp 113-149

Chapter Five - “Idagha Chieftaincy Was Nothing Like What it is Today”: The Spectacle of Public Performance

pp 150-198

Part Three - Money

pp 199-200

Chapter Six - “We Call it Change”: An Artistic Profile of Artist Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa

pp 201-241

Chapter Seven - “Look at it, Touch it, Smell It—This is Nnabo”: Trajectories and Transformations of “Warrior” Societies

pp 242-281

Chapter Eight - “For This Small Money, I No Go Enter Competition”: Masquerade Competition on a Global Stage

pp 282-308

Part Four - Local Voices

pp 309-310

Chapter Nine - “I Know Myself”: Masquerade as an Artistic Transformation

pp 311-347

Coda: “I Think About My Kids and Feeding Them”

pp 348-356

References

pp 357-374

Index

pp 375-382