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    Any Relationship Between Music and Mathematics/Visual Arts?
    (International Journal of Integrative Humanism, 2020-03) Nweke, F.E.
    The understanding that a relationship exists between music and other artistic and scientific disciplines arouses particular interest; this curiosity led to the investigation in this study within the University of Lagos, Nigeria. The University has both the department of creative Arts comprising of music and visual arts, as well as the department of mathematics. In one of such classes of music psychology, the researcher asked students studying music if they love mathematics. The response, of course, was in the negative. This gave a kind of clue to finding out if the students of mathematics equally would love music. Without having a hasty generalization, the study decides to ask the questions from mathematics students in 300 and 400 level department of mathematics, university of Lagos. The study highlights the positive and negative influence music has had on the selected students who were available for the study, finding out also the role music had played in achieving a giant stride in these two disciplines. The study further finds out that, those who were not involved in music either as a band member or as a singer or an orchestra member succinctly disagree that a correlation exists between music and mathematics/visual arts. The study collates the statistics of those who agrees and disagrees that a relationship exists between music and visual arts. These procedures, not documented in the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Hence, the reason for this study.10 (33.3%) of respondents affirms the relationship between music and visuals arts/mathematics. 20 (66.7%) of respondents believed there is no significant relationship between music and visual arts/ mathematics. But, 13 (43.3%) of the respondents agreed that listening to music brings out the best in them towards creating a work of art and solving mathematical problems. The study implies that one's love for music develops better at an early stage of one's life. Hence, parents should endeavor to expose their children to music at an early age, to harness the potentials that are inherent in music
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    Artibiotics: Examining the Roles of Two Art-forms in Supporting Covid-19 Public Health Measures in Lagos.
    (University of Lagos Press, 2021) Nweke, F.E.
    Despite the initial uproar in the conventional and social media which the COVID-19 pandemic elicited, attention was not paid to various coping mechanisms available for restoring sanity and calmness to those who had been psycho-emotionally affected directly or indirectlyby the COVID-19 lockdowns. Given their information-dissemination capacity, music and animated cartoons played a crucial role in propagating the message of prevention of the virus. Information on how music helped in creating awareness during the previous outbreak in Nigeria such as the Ebola virus was elicited from the respondents in this study. The study adopted the methods of discourse analysis and Focus Group Discussions. It was found that various art forms such as cartoons, films, literatures and music and so on. Music, as portrayed in this study, helped residents to be wary of the virus, through the messages from the jingles. This study found out that, the various measures meant to help reduced the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic were sung in the jingles. The Songs also raised the hopes of respondents by shifting their attention from disturbing news about the pandemic to music and visual images. The study recommends that, the arts (music, cartoons) should be introduced at all strata of the society as well as in the school curriculum as one of the tools useful for disaster preparedness/prevention.
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    Artibiotics: The Role of Two Art-forms in Strengthening Adherence to COVID-19 Health Measures in Lagos.
    (University of Lagos Press, 2021) Nweke, F.E.
    Despite the initial uproar in the conventional and social media which the COVID-19 pandemic elicited, attention was not paid to various coping mechanisms available for restoring sanity and calmness to those who had been psycho-emotionally affected directly or indirectlyby the COVID-19 lockdowns. Given their information-dissemination capacity, music and animated cartoons played a crucial role in propagating the message of prevention of the virus. Information on how music helped in creating awareness during the previous outbreak in Nigeria such as the Ebola virus was elicited from the respondents in this study. The study adopted the methods of discourse analysis and Focus Group Discussions. It was found that various art forms such as cartoons, films, literatures and music and so on. Music, as portrayed in this study, helped residents to be wary of the virus, through the messages from the jingles. This study found out that, the various measures meant to help reduced the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic were sung in the jingles. The Songs also raised the hopes of respondents by shifting their attention from disturbing news about the pandemic to music and visual images. The study recommends that, the arts (music, cartoons) should be introduced at all strata of the society as well as in the school curriculum as one of the tools useful for disaster preparedness/prevention.
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    DISSEMINATING COVID-19-RELATED INFORMATION THROUGH MUSIC AND RADIO TALK-SHOWS TO YORUBA AUDIENCE COMMUNITY
    (The Sixth J. A. Atanda Lectures and Conference, 2021-06-24) Nweke, F.E.
    The use of different media of communication in recent times targeted primarily at the specified audience, against the culture of traditional dissemination, has given rise to the emergence of language-based radio or call-in programs. This premise of importation and the efficacy of this art form that birthed the radio program tagged "Leyin Covid-19" on Bond-FM, 92.3. This programme draws personal experiences and lessons on the coping strategies of residents of Lagos living within clustered settings (multi-tenanted houses) in precarious times of an epidemic or pandemic, like COVID-19. While the music art employed as the signature tune for the program communicated with both the Yoruba and the non-Yoruba-based audience for its rhythmic composition, the discussions and call-in were done in Yoruba dialects. This suggests that the program was developed specifically for the Yoruba-speaking community to protect the Yoruba race. This study qualitatively evaluates music and radio talk-show on the Yoruba audience community with purposive sampling drawn from the program respondents. Data collated through the focus group's critical and analytical discourse discussion in the archives. The objective of the study is to evaluate the content of the show and its audience-reach capacity. The study finds out that respondents emphasized the sensitization roles of music and the talk show in local dialects as a practical alternative to information diffusion amongst the Yoruba people in Nigeria.
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    An Evaluation of Nigerian Choristers’ Leverage on Technology in The Face of Covid-19 Pandemic
    (Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing, 2021-11) Nweke, F.E.
    During COVID-19, sixty choristers gathered at Mount Venom Presbyterian Church in Washington for choir rehearsal. Three weeks after the choral practice, some 45 members of the group were diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with symptoms, three were hospitalized, and two have now died. A month after the disastrous Mount Venom choral rehearsal, the World Health Organization, in collaboration with pop star Lady Gaga, organized a virtual concert that helped raise about $127.9 million for COVID-19 relief. In light of these two different incidents, this study is an evaluation of how Nigerian church choristers have used technology in church services during the COVID-19 Lockdown involving a ban on gatherings. 69% of the respondents claimed the church where they feature as choir members used live online music that is being streamed live but featured just two or three members of the choir. 14% out of the respondents used recorded music by the church choristers or other forms of gospel music already recorded during the time the choristers were meant to originally perform under normal circumstances. Sadly, about 17% of the choristers claimed no music was used in their various churches during the online church services during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. This gave room for concern; this study identified problems associated with the performance/non-performance level of church choristers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through questionnaires purposely distributed as a link on the Google form to over a hundred and thirty (134) choristers on the researcher's WhatsApp platforms, these respondents were equally asked to send the same link to their friends or family who sing in the choir residing predominantly within the Lagos metropolis in Nigeria. Responses were collated via the Google forms. Descriptive analyses were made. The chi-square test/cross-tabulation and the Kendal tau were used to find the correlation between online performance and social media use. The study finds that the use of social media does not have a relationship with online performance. The study's implication reveals that, if the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts the choristers, then other aspects of the economy are not in safe hands from the havoc the COVID-19 pandemic has wrecked. Hence, singers and teachers of music should ensure they are technologically inclined. The teaching of music in school should also include computer music and how to perform online, which may lead to the school reforming her curriculum.
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    An Evaluation of Nigerian Choristers’ Leverage on Technology in The Face of Covid-19 Pandemic
    (Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing, 2021-11) Nweke, F.E.
    During COVID-19, sixty choristers gathered at Mount Venom Presbyterian Church in Washington for choir rehearsal. Three weeks after the choral practice, some 45 members of the group were diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with symptoms, three were hospitalized, and two have now died. A month after the disastrous Mount Venom choral rehearsal, the World Health Organization, in collaboration with pop star Lady Gaga, organized a virtual concert that helped raise about $127.9 million for COVID-19 relief. In light of these two different incidents, this study is an evaluation of how Nigerian church choristers have used technology in church services during the COVID-19 Lockdown involving a ban on gatherings. 69% of the respondents claimed the church where they feature as choir members used live online music that is being streamed live but featured just two or three members of the choir. 14% out of the respondents used recorded music by the church choristers or other forms of gospel music already recorded during the time the choristers were meant to originally perform under normal circumstances. Sadly, about 17% of the choristers claimed no music was used in their various churches during the online church services during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. This gave room for concern; this study identified problems associated with the performance/non-performance level of church choristers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through questionnaires purposely distributed as a link on the Google form to over a hundred and thirty (134) choristers on the researcher's WhatsApp platforms, these respondents were equally asked to send the same link to their friends or family who sing in the choir residing predominantly within the Lagos metropolis in Nigeria. Responses were collated via the Google forms. Descriptive analyses were made. The chi-square test/cross-tabulation and the Kendal tau were used to find the correlation between online performance and social media use. The study finds that the use of social media does not have a relationship with online performance. The study's implication reveals that, if the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts the choristers, then other aspects of the economy are not in safe hands from the havoc the COVID-19 pandemic has wrecked. Hence, singers and teachers of music should ensure they are technologically inclined. The teaching of music in school should also include computer music and how to perform online, which may lead to the school reforming her curriculum.
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    Evaluation of Virtual Lessons During COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: The Creative Arts Students' Experience
    (World Alliance for Art Education (WAAE) 2021, 2021-06-24) Nweke, F.E.
    The horrendous experience brought upon the world by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic did not only wreak havoc in the economic sectors and health sectors it also affects the educational sectors. Teaching and learning came to a halt at some points as students were made to sit at home. Some schools, after a while, started online virtual classes; different platforms were therefore used to achieve these purposes, such as Google classroom, Edmondo, telegram, YouTube, LMS, Microsoft team, zoom classroom, and so on. In Nigeria, few schools engaged their students in virtual classes at the university level. For instance, the use of the Learning Management System (LMS) introduced as a teaching platform for the undergraduates and the postgraduate students at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, during the COVID-19 pandemic that happened in almost all parts of the world, was a new experience for most students at the Department of Creative Arts. This study examined how the undergraduate students within the Department of Creative Arts, comprising students studying music, visual arts, and theatre arts, perceived, preferred, responded and utilized the LMS platforms to access their classes and the examination that took place months after receiving lectures. The majority, 53 percent of the respondents are female, 75 percent of the respondents in Theatre Arts are female while 61 percent and 69 percent of respondents in Visual Arts and Music are males respectively. Those in age’s 21-25years account for nearly half, 49 percent with more in Theatre Arts. There are more students in the Music department who are older than 30 years compared to Visual and Theatre Arts. It is evident from the study that nearly 9 in 10 (86 percent) of the students are running a full-time programme with more in the Theatre Arts and least in Music. Nearly 14 percent of the students are running ICE programme where Music department leads. The 400 level students which account for 35 percent tops over other levels while it follows by 200 and 300 levels which account for 24 percent and 23 percent respectively. The proportion of the final year students that participated in the study is nearly 1 in 10 of the entire respondents among these, the level account for 1 in 4 (25 percent) in the Music department. Few of the respondents were not technologically savvy despite the school's initial training. However, some of the respondents in this study expressed their disappointment at the low and sometimes internet interruption and disruptions that hindered them from benefiting immensely from the virtual class. By infrastructural deficiency, I mean the low-level penetration of communication/internet, network in Nigeria. This raised a lot of negative emotions while approaching their examinations. When the tests finally started, some students expressed some level of joy as the multiple-choice questions made them start and finish their examination questions right on time. This study concluded that infrastructural deficiencies in third world countries like Nigeria are crucial challenges in the maintenance of teaching, learning and research networks. Hence, the study recommends introducing information and computer technology class included at all level of the education system in Nigeria. Students should also get financial supports from government and stakeholders to enable them have internet enabled devices at a time like this.
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    EVALUATION OF VIRTUAL LESSONS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN: THE CREATIVE ARTS STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE.
    (World Alliance for Art Education (WAAE) 2021 Conference, 2021-10-17) Nweke, F.E.
    The horrendous experience brought upon the world by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic did not only wreak havoc in the economic sectors and health sectors it also affects the educational sectors. Teaching and learning came to a halt at some points as students were made to sit at home. Some schools, after a while, started online virtual classes; different platforms were therefore used to achieve these purposes, such as Google classroom, Edmondo, telegram, YouTube, LMS, Microsoft team, zoom classroom, and so on. In Nigeria, few schools engaged their students in virtual classes at the university level. For instance, the use of the Learning Management System (LMS) introduced as a teaching platform for the undergraduates and the postgraduate students at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, during the COVID-19 pandemic that happened in almost all parts of the world, was a new experience for most students at the Department of Creative Arts. This study examined how the undergraduate students within the Department of Creative Arts, comprising students studying music, visual arts, and theatre arts, perceived, preferred, responded and utilized the LMS platforms to access their classes and the examination that took place months after receiving lectures. The majority, 53 percent of the respondents are female, 75 percent of the respondents in Theatre Arts are female while 61 percent and 69 percent of respondents in Visual Arts and Music are males respectively. Those in age’s 21-25years account for nearly half, 49 percent with more in Theatre Arts. There are more students in the Music department who are older than 30 years compared to Visual and Theatre Arts. It is evident from the study that nearly 9 in 10 (86 percent) of the students are running a full-time programme with more in the Theatre Arts and least in Music. Nearly 14 percent of the students are running ICE programme where Music department leads. The 400 level students which account for 35 percent tops over other levels while it follows by 200 and 300 levels which account for 24 percent and 23 percent respectively. The proportion of the final year students that participated in the study is nearly 1 in 10 of the entire respondents among these, the level account for 1 in 4 (25 percent) in the Music department. Few of the respondents were not technologically savvy despite the school's initial training. However, some of the respondents in this study expressed their disappointment at the low and sometimes internet interruption and disruptions that hindered them from benefiting immensely from the virtual class. By infrastructural deficiency, I mean the low-level penetration of communication/internet, network in Nigeria. This raised a lot of negative emotions while approaching their examinations. When the tests finally started, some students expressed some level of joy as the multiple-choice questions made them start and finish their examination questions right on time. This study concluded that infrastructural deficiencies in third world countries like Nigeria are crucial challenges in the maintenance of teaching, learning and research networks. Hence, the study recommends introducing information and computer technology class included at all level of the education system in Nigeria. Students should also get financial supports from government and stake-holders to enable them have internet enabled devices at a time like this.
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    FIGHTING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE MUSIC OF HOPE
    (University of Georgia, Athens-US (In View), 2021-11-09) Nweke, F.E.
    Retrospectively, a look at the past ere the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, the present and the view about the life post-pandemic in the face of the horrendous state of insecurity pervading Nigeria can be fundamental for the quality of life and security among the female gender living in the multi-tenanted apartments. Although, the previous study I co-investigated did not mention specifically how the female gender responded to music during the pandemic period. This present study aims to reveal life post pandemics in the face of scarcity and insecurity threatening the lives of Nigerians, especially women. The question is, music that sensitized these women during the COVID-19 pandemic, can the tool of music resurrect a sense of hope in the lives of the women living in the multi-tenanted apartment? How far has the tool of music been used as an elixir to restore hope and raise the psyche of the female folks residing in the multi-tenanted apartment? And how often do these women listen to music daily, and does music mean anything to these women living in the multi-tenanted apartment whose daily preoccupations are getting the daily bread for their children? This present study documents the musical genres that depict hope to the women living in the slum, mentions and provides a content analysis of the specific music carrying the message of hope. This study implies that when music is meaningfully engaged during disease outbreaks by any society, the researcher proposes that the possibility of the citizens contracting such disease will be minimized to the barest minimum. All hands must therefore be on deck to enrich the cultural sector by all the stakeholders.
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    Fighting COVID-19: The Music of Hope
    (University of Georgia, Athens-US, 2021-11-09) Nweke, F.E.
    Retrospectively, a look at the past ere the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, the present and the view about the life post-pandemic in the face of the horrendous state of insecurity pervading Nigeria can be fundamental for the quality of life and security among the female gender living in the multi-tenanted apartments. Although, the previous study I co-investigated did not mention specifically how the female gender responded to music during the pandemic period. This present study aims to reveal life post pandemics in the face of scarcity and insecurity threatening the lives of Nigerians, especially women. The question is, music that sensitized these women during the COVID-19 pandemic, can the tool of music resurrect a sense of hope in the lives of the women living in the multi-tenanted apartment? How far has the tool of music been used as an elixir to restore hope and raise the psyche of the female folks residing in the multi-tenanted apartment? And how often do these women listen to music daily, and does music mean anything to these women living in the multi-tenanted apartment whose daily preoccupations are getting the daily bread for their children? This present study documents the musical genres that depict hope to the women living in the slum, mentions and provides a content analysis of the specific music carrying the message of hope. This study implies that when music is meaningfully engaged during disease outbreaks by any society, the researcher proposes that the possibility of the citizens contracting such disease will be minimized to the barest minimum. All hands must therefore be on deck to enrich the cultural sector by all the stakeholders.
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    Lagos and the Christmas Concerts/Festival Obsession
    (Conversation Africa, 2021-12) Nweke, F.E.
    As the COVID-19 with its lockdown and social activities are gradually picking up, holiday season is here again, Lagos the entertainment and economic hub of West Africa is awash with mega budget concerts and music festival. This write up is an attempt to analyze on the reason d’être for boom in music concerts in Nigeria especially during the end of the year festival and the dynamic of interaction in this space.
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    Music Performance: Path to Social Well-Being among Children Living in a Deplorable Environment - Makoko, Nigeria
    (World Alliance for Art Education, 2020-10-17) Nweke, F.E.
    Due to the significant gap that exists between the children of the elites and the children living in the slum, there are high tendencies of the slum dwellers developing low self-esteem. Using the Yuletide season as an example, the children of the rich tend to be engaged in Christmas carol with so much pomp and pageantry, while the slum dwellers probably would wish and fantasize to be like them. It is on this wise that, the researcher decided to give these slum dwellers some sense of self-worth by engaging them in music that, these children from the affluent home sometimes are engaged in. The focus of this study is to provide hope to children that are socially deprived, under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) goal 10: and reduce inequality by disproportionately affecting the poorest and most vulnerable. Makoko is a slum area in Yaba Local Government Development Area. Makoko is a poor community with inhabitants deprivedof basic necessities of life. This study examines in detail the many angles musical performance explored in a bid to help slum children become better versions of themselves.
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    Nourishing the Malnourished Musical Child in An Unequal Society: The Case- Study Of Two Schools In Lagos, Nigeria.
    (ARUA-CHSD Unilag, 2021-10) Nweke, F.E.
    The development of creativity depends on its nurture and on internal and external factors that influence the process. It is sometimes apparent that some children who possess some level of musical giftedness are fortunate to receive appropriate musical training to harness and showcase their musical prowess to the world. Unfortunately, some are at a disadvantage. This is perhaps partly due to the inability to get the right training, simply because the individual is indigent. This explains the injunction from the Holy book that "the poor you will always have amongst you." The researcher recommends drastic measures to ensure equal musical opportunities are given to these disadvantaged ones living in the same environment with unequal living standards. The study uses a comparative analysis using the interview methods. The study compares two schools, the children living in the slum and the children living on the mainland in Lagos, Nigeria. The study examines the level of musical training received, the adequacy of those training, and personnel's level of musical training engaged in teaching the children. It examines if there are musical prodigies in these two schools of thought. How can the government ensure a gap is bridged between the educationally/musically disadvantaged child living in the slum and the privileged child living in affluence? The study proffers the solution; this implies that inequality does not help a nation give fair judgment and treatment to its citizens; the government must ensure adequate measures are implemented to bridge these gaps.