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By Cat Gonzalez. "....Mexicans love to wear masks, to dance and make music in a blazing display of fireworks, feasting and shooting off pistols. Appearances are deceptive; even the poorest pueblo collects money to celebrate the patron saint's day, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Independence Day and whatever else calls for gaiety and loud noise. Religious and historical dances can't be beat for noise: drums, conch shell horns, seed pods filled with gravel and tied around the legs. Many danzantes in the state of Jalisco affix clacking soles to their sandals The dancers wear masks or elaborate feather head dresses. Magical Rite In Jalisco a magical rite of pre-Hispanic origin is the dance of the paixtle, the Nahuatl word for moss. Twenty years ago they wore capes of moss, today dancers who represent sorcerers dress themselves in a fabric to represent moss and wear wooden or paper masks with human features, covering the head and face with a bandana. Forming two lines, they dance to the music of a violin playing a lovely sone, a type of indigenous music. They make fierce animal cries, shaking a staff carved with the head of a deer from which hangs a string of rattles....."

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Masksre a vehicle for not only personal but cultural expression worlwide

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Most Javanese masked dance dramas are history plays celebrating the Javanese kings. In Bali religious ceremonies commonly incorporate masked dances to entertain the gods and ancestors. Javanese and Balinese masks follow conventions. Balinese masks are fairly natural and rounded. Lips are full and chins are less receding than those in Java. In Central Java features are sharp and delicate. In Cirebon in West Java faces are moon-like. In East Java and Madura they tend to be heavily carved.

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Discusses the culture of the indigenous people of New Guinea, including body decoration and mask making.

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This article is not about making masks (1) but is an invitation to readers to think about masks, their use and our relationship with them and offer some starting points for taking hold of mask work. So now, it might be helpful to take a step back and thing about what a mask might be: not its construction, but its purpose. When we take up a mask to dance in, use in ritual, to work magic with, we transform ourselves. Magical masks are not there to hide ourselves from our embarrassment or to conceal ourselves for villainy but to offer a face to a character waiting "over there" to come "over here" and act.

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+ PHOTOS Masks play an important role in Mexican culture and heritage. Over hundreds of years many different types of masks have been erected to retell stories, celebrate festivals, and acknowledge milestones. A few of the many uses for the masks include Dia de los Muertos, Christmas, New Years, Candlemas, and Holy Week. Religion is deeply rooted in the making of many of the masks. Throughout Holy Week masks are worn to symbolize mourning for the death of Jesus and total exuberation for His rising. Much joy is also shown in the masks of Christmas. All Saints Day is also a celebration for which masks are used. Mexican tales, fables, and folklore are frequently retold through masked dances. Sagas of the Conquest and of fallen heroes are also often portrayed. Many of the festivals at which masks are used are little known outside of their region.

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. In recent years the art of Venetian maskmaking has been resurrected, and nowadays more masks actually are purchased to be displayed on a wall as artworks than to be worn as a way of concealing one's identity. These are not your typical Halloween masks, cheap and flimsy toss-aways; the best ones take days to make and cost hundreds of dollars or more.

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The mask, as a mean of the dramatic transformation of one person into another identity, perhaps ranks among the oldest manifestation of human culture. There is evidence of the use of masks long before people started to cultivate the soil, and certainly before they discovered about the extraction and use of metals.

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Masks of the American Indian have something to say and there is more to these masks than people know .....

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by Leslie S. Bryan ( + PHOTOS OF THE MASKS ) Getting ready for Halloween? No, the 90 masks displayed earlier this spring at the Morris Museum (NJ) were not designed only for the popular children?s holiday. They are part of everyday life, as announced in the exhibit?s title: ?Mexican Masks of the 20th Century, A Living Tradition.? The traveling exhibit, which opens May 11 in Ft. Meyer, Florida and will remain there until July 12, features familiar face decoration in a context that links the craft of construction to a people?s long and complex history.

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Don't be fooled by the face I wear For I wear a thousand masks And none of them are me Don't be fooled, for God's sake, don't be fooled I give the impression that I'm secure That confidence is my name, and coolness is my game And that I need no one, but don't believe me Underneath lies the real me............

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Mummings and Disguisings: development of these into the Masque The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907?21). Volume VI. The Drama to 1642, Part Two.

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Elizabeth?s frugality prevented the masque from developing in her reign. It was in frequent use, but the queen had not the special taste for it which made it prominent as an amusement of the aristocracy in the courts of Henry VIII and James I. But ?entertainments,? during the queen?s numerous progresses, were plentifully produced. The entertainment was the masque out-of-doors, and consisted of some kind of welcoming device or function arranged for greeting the queen on her arrival, or ?discovered? afterwards, as she was conducted round gardens and park. The entertainment had more dramatic possibilities in it than the masque, because it depended less upon scenery, but the English climate kept it always short and slight.

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If January, 1612, be the date of Love Restored, it is important for the student of the masque. Jonson innovated again on previous practice. The masque proper is preceded not by an antimasque, but by a scene of excellent comedy. The scene is the development in a new style of the part of the presenter, and still gives to that character the larger part of the dialogue, which is in prose.

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There were no court masques in the beginning of 1606 and 1607; but Jonson was a second time requisitioned for the masque of 10 January, 1608. The queen wanted the daughters of Niger again, with ?their beauties varied according to promise,? and four ladies added to their number.

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When we reach the reign of Elizabeth, Spenser?s poetry, even more adequately than Hall?s prose, reflects and revives the glory of the medieval masque and pageant. His genius, in some of its most characteristic aspects, was exactly fitted to describe and appreciate the world just beyond the real world with which the masque dealt. The masque of the Seven Deadly Sins 11 and the masque of Cupid 12 are magnificent examples of the processional masque

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brief. Encyclop?dia Britannica: " During the 16th century the European continental masque traveled to Tudor England, where it became a court entertainment played before the king. Gorgeous costumes, spectacular scenery with elaborate machinery to move it on- and offstage, and rich allegorical verse marked the English masque. During the reign of Elizabeth I the masque provided a vehicle for compliments paid to the queen at her palace and during her summer tours through England."

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Africa Masquerading in Nigeria has become a significant instrument of the nation?s interethnic politics. There have been many instances of clashes between members of ethnically based masquerade cults and migrants from other ethnic groups............................

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Mike Chase masks for sale, workshops, events, and articles on masks.

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Masquerading in Nigeria has become a significant instrument of the nation?s interethnic politics. There have been many instances of clashes between members of ethnically based masquerade cults and migrants from other ethnic groups

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Submitted by Sarah Morgan, art teacher, Broadwater Academy in Exmore, VA

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in German

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Silent Treatment Wordless testimony to power of movement By Marina Wolf

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Brief story

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