The Organ Works of Fela Sowande: Cultural Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Organ Works of Fela Sowande: Cultural Perspectives write by Godwin Sadoh. This book was released on 2007-10-04. The Organ Works of Fela Sowande: Cultural Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nigeria has been blessed with a few well-trained organist-composers since the arrival of Christianity in the most populous African country around the 1840s. The institutions established by European missionaries and the colonial administration had a great impact on the emergence of the 'Nigerian organ school'. The musicians had their formative periods at the mission schools, church choirs, and under organ playing apprenticeships. This book focuses on selected organ works by the most celebrated African art musician, Fela Sowande, a Nigerian organist-composer. Fela Sowande is the first African to popularize organ works by natives of Africa in Europe and the United States. He was one of the pioneer composers to incorporate indigenous African elements such as folksongs, rhythms and other types of traditional source materials in solo works for organ. He is considered the most prolific Nigerian composer for solo organ in Nigeria. The discussion of Sowande's music enunciates the relationship between traditional and contemporary musical processes in postcolonial Nigeria. A cultural and/or ethnomusicological analysis of Sowande's selected pieces for organ solo involves an examination of specific indigenous source materials such as rhythmic organization, melodic constructs/thematic materials (music communication), interrelations of music and dance, and elements of musical conception.
Music of Fela Sowande
Music of Fela Sowande - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music of Fela Sowande write by Bode Omojola. This book was released on 2009. Music of Fela Sowande available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Multiple Interpretations of Dynamics of Creativity and Knowledge in African Music Traditions
Multiple Interpretations of Dynamics of Creativity and Knowledge in African Music Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multiple Interpretations of Dynamics of Creativity and Knowledge in African Music Traditions write by Bode Omojola. This book was released on 2005. Multiple Interpretations of Dynamics of Creativity and Knowledge in African Music Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Nigerian Art Music
Nigerian Art Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nigerian Art Music write by Bode Omojola. This book was released on 1995. Nigerian Art Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ART MUSIC IN NIGERIA is the most comprehensive book on the works of modem Nigerian composers who have been influenced by European classical music. Relying on over 500 scores, archival materials and interviews with many Nigerian composers, the author traces the historical developments of this new idiom in Nigeria and provides a critical and detailed analysis of certain works. Written in a refreshing and lucid style and amply illustrated with music examples, the book represents a milestone in musicological research in Nigeria. Although written essentially for students and scholars of African music, this interesting book will also be enjoyed by the général reader.
Singing Yoruba Christianity
Singing Yoruba Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singing Yoruba Christianity write by Vicki L. Brennan. This book was released on 2018-01-23. Singing Yoruba Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become unified around a shared set of values. She follows parishioners as they attend choir rehearsals, use musical media—hymn books and cassette tapes—and perform the music and rituals that connect them through religious experience. Brennan asserts that church members believe that singing together makes them part of a larger imagined social collective, one that allows them to achieve health, joy, happiness, wealth, and success in an ethical way. Brennan discovers how this particular Yoruba church articulates and embodies the moral attitudes necessary to be a good Christian in Nigeria today.
