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Àkọsílẹ̀ 694 ní àwọn apá 38. Ṣàyẹ̀wò nípa apá, ìpele, ìdánilójú tàbí àmì.
Why a Yoruba dancer has to understand drum language, the aesthetic of dancing hot with a cool face, and the line from the Alarinjo masque theatre through Ogunde, Ladipo and Ogunmola to Nollywood.
The chanted poetry of the Egúngún masquerade, its lengthened-vowel vocal signature, the altered voice that marks it as the speech of the dead, and its descent into the Aláàrìnjò travelling theatre.
The institutional history, liturgical programme, sacerdotal hierarchy, and modern transformations of the annual ancestral masquerade festival among the Ọ̀yọ́ Yorùbá.