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Pop goes the sacred: Dan mask performance and popular culture in postcolonial Cote d'Ivoire.
Africa Today, December, 2001 by Reed, Daniel B.
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> Ge performance--an enactment of Dan religious and ethnic identity involving masks and music--is an old form that performers today manipulate in new contexts to negotiate complex identities and get things done. Gedro, a type of ge that performs to entertain and demonstrate excellence in dance, incorporates influences from both traditional and popular expressive forms into a performance that consultants sometimes call "the tradition." In this article I explore the ways my consultants, through Gedro performance, demonstrate their own unique, localized views of tradition and ...
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