Dan GE Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d'IvoireGe, formerly translated as mask or masquerade, appears among the Dan people of Cte d'Ivoire as a dancing and musical embodiment of their social ideals and religious beliefs. In Dan Ge Performance, Daniel B. Reed sets out to discover what resides at the core of Ge. He finds that Ge is defined as part of a religious system, a form of entertainment, an industry, a political tool, an instrument of justice, and a form of resistance and it can take on