2022
DOI: 10.5406/21567417.66.3.08
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Music, Seduction, and New Beginnings: The Ikorodo Maiden Dance of Nsukka

Abstract: Why are conversations about seduction, the female body, and choosing partners central at a funeral during the Ikorodo music performance? How does Ikorodo enact the act of seduction? How has the act of seduction and Ikorodo performance practice evolved? How do Ikorodo performances express the indigenous conceptions of seductions? These are the questions this article addresses to reveal—how Ikorodo dance provides a platform for new beginnings and enactments of Nsukka Igbo societal gender ideologies. Drawing from… Show more

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