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- ItemOpen AccessAny 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
- ItemOpen AccessArtibiotics: 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.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Changing Fortunes of the Cinema in Post-Colonial Lagos(Urban Generations: Post Colonial Cities. A Publication of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences- Rabat, 2004-08-09) Oni, D.Urban generations in post-colonial cities have been characterized by the development of certain monuments, architectural edifices and socio-cultural infrastructural facilities. Most of these have, overtime, become dilapidated or are close to going into extinction, through their relevance to the urban milieu is not in question. Restoration of these legacies, in particular the cinema, would assist in the sustainable socio-cultural linkages of at least the immediate urban community.
- ItemOpen AccessComparative Study of Formal and Non Formal Training in Adire Production(LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010) Awogbade, M.; Sodipo, O. E.Staff Pubications
- ItemOpen AccessConlict And Conflict Resolution On The Stage.(Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria., 2005) Ezenwanebe, O.C.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Corpus of Choreographic Styles in Tunde Kelani’s Works: A Trans-Sociological Hybridity Discourse(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021-09-27) Olokodana-James, O.Amongst the rudimentary compositional elements evident in most of Tunde Kelani’s works, dance and choreography have become very significant. As a promoter of culture, Tunde Kelani sets his choreographic works upon certain hybrid forms, an interaction of two opposing or complimentary patterns. He balances his projection of Nigerian autochthonous culture with glimpses of contemporaneity for global relevance and universality of content. This concept as evident is most of his filmic works is diffused into residual and emergent choreographies which can be interpreted upon diverse illustrative slates. This study takes into consideration selected movies from his stable and highlights his patterns of choreographic indulgences in traditional cum contemporary synergy. As a two-way dimensional discourse, the study employs as its theoretical frameworks, Trans-Sociological Hybridity hinged on a fusion of Causal Antecedent Condition, Popular Culture and Modern Eclecticism. These concepts are further interrogated through the exploratory and descriptive methods respectively
- ItemOpen AccessCreating, Preserving and Propagating Nigerian Dance through Technology(Carolina Academic Press, LLC, 2021-07-27) Olokodana-James, O.The consciousness and need to archive Nigerian autochthonous culture, particularly dance in the emerging technologically driven global sphere, has attracted massive dimensions and pre-emptive measures. Some of these measures have proved abortive while others have in their state of practicality led to the development of culture adulteration and multiplicity. In the same vein, beyond the scope of preservation, many short clips of Nigerian dances are captured via different audiovisual recording devices and then uploaded on the net. All these have a reprisal impact on aspects of the culture it seeks to promote, propagate, and preserve. To this end, this study evaluates Nigerian dance and technology from two broad perspectives; it assays the use of technology in the creation, documentation, and diffusion of Nigerian cultural ingenuity – dance. It also weighs the impact of technology on the acquisition of Nigeria’s dance culture through the “garbage-in-garbage-out” systemic principles that describe “technology”. The study is appraised within the framework of technological determinism, cultural relativism, and descriptive methodology. The paper concludes that although technology may function as a viable alternative for the preservation and projection of Nigerian dance, its efficacy is determined by the originality and extent of the contents stored on the different forms of technological models.
- ItemOpen AccessDEVELOPMENTS IN THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN DRAMA AND THEATRE A FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOUR OF DAPO ADELUGBA(Alpha Crownes Publishers, 2011) Oni, D.When the idea was proposed to publish this collection of tributes and essays in honour of Professor Dapo Adelugba, it was enthusiastically embraced by several scholars, theatre artists, critics and teachers; all friends, colleagues and students of the celebrant. However, despite the great display of affection and honour accorded Adelugba, no one could imagine the volume of contributions: tributes flooded major Nigerian newspapers and magazines, all dripping with encomiums and adulations; essayists and critics from Nigeria and abroad swamped the seminar venue of University of Lagos, turning the forum which was planned to be, at most, an assembly into a huge two-day conference; and several other contributions were sent to the editors, months after the celebrations.
- ItemOpen AccessDISSEMINATING 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.
- ItemOpen AccessDocumenting and Archiving the Nigerian Musical Arts: Notes on Methods, Processes and Practices(Association of Nigerian Musicologists, 2020-11) Ayorinde, O.; Talabi, G.O.; Okunade, A.Abstract This paper explores musical documentation and archiving as central to an effective music scholarship and arts development in Nigeria. The available research on various aspects of Nigerian music, the overwhelming presence of creative outputs (like musical composition) and the emerging musical forms have not only valorised archiving as a key component of knowledge production, but also calls for critical engagements with these available works—for new knowledge and arts development. While there are efforts at institutional levels to archive the available musical works and research, the lack of ‘specialist knowledge’, infrastructure and theoretical models have frustrated rather than encouraged such efforts. Drawing perspectives from contemporary archival practices, experiences and theories, in this paper, we explore possible musical documentation and archiving frameworks and methods that could facilitate the transformation of musical arts research, artistic and creative practices for social, cultural and economic development in Nigeria. In so doing, we explain the political economy of the musical archive and its place in the nation’s developmental process, as well as its implications for individual institutions. Advancing from this, we engage more practical steps and methods that constitute a functioning archive and documentation practice. In sum, we argue that the transformation of music research, education frameworks, artistic and creative practices in Nigeria depends on a higher education agenda that takes seriously the role of music documentation and archiving in knowledge production.
- ItemOpen AccessAn 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.
- ItemOpen AccessAn 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.
- ItemOpen AccessEVALUATION 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.
- ItemOpen AccessFeminism & Nigerian Theatre.(Grand Orbit Communications & Emhai Press/Port Harcourt., 2005) Ezenwanebe, O.C.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Feminist Ambivalence In Africa Dramas:(2008-07) Ezenwanebe, O.C·African women have relentlessly expressed their predicament within the framework of African traditional culture as oppressive and hence unacceptable. Literature has proved to be one of the forms through which their collective aspiration for equity and justice is being constructively expressed within a literary ideology commonly known as Feminism. Many Nigerian literary artists like - Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Zulu Sofola, Tess Onwueme, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Stella Oyedepo, etc have in various ways articulated the oppressive condition of women .in the context of the Nigerian environment. In all, African feminist literary critics have identified some forms of representation that distort the African conception of feminist ideology. This paper offers a critical examination of some of the distortions in the dramatization of feminist ideals in Nigerian theatre. How do Nigerian female playwrights envisage the issue of feminist oppression and liberation within the context of Nigerian traditional culture? To answer the above question, the role of the female protagonists in Tess Onwueme's two plays: Ona in The Broken Calabash and Wazobia in The Reign of Wazobia, are critically analysed. A close examination of the plays reveals Tess Onwueme's ambivalence to some key feminist principles, and this is deduced from the ambiguous relationship between concern and dramaturgy or theme and technique as well as intention and its realization.
- ItemOpen AccessFeminist Consciousness and Nigerian Theatre.(2006-04) Ezenwanebe, O.C.
- ItemOpen AccessGlobal Diffusion of Chinese Culture: The Case of Confucius Institute in Africa (Nigeria)(Peking University, 2021-05) Oni, D.For a rising power, China’s soft power diplomacy has assumed an unprecedented momentum. As a projection of its soft power diplomacy, the Chinese government has promoted the noble ideas of Confucius as well as the establishment of Confucius Institutes across the world. Obviously, the specter of soft power diplomacy is relatively large. It includes culture, language, public diplomacy, education systems, organization and promotion of various festivals and other related events. These are all geared towards the ability to attract and co-opt rather than coerce or use force to win international partners. In several African countries, the Chinese government and other relevant authorities have established a number of Confucius Institutes. This is done through mutual understanding and collaborative efforts with authorities of Chinese and African universities. In Nigeria, the desire to embrace the institute started around 2006, culminating in two CIs; Nnamdi Azikiwe University and University of Lagos. The CI at the University of Lagos has been designed to stimulate the study of Chinese language and culture. Since its establishment, the institute has recorded outstanding success in the promotion of Chinese language and culture across the Lagos metropolis and its environs especially through the Bridge program. In addition, the institute has organized several events to celebrate the Chinese New Year or Chinese Spring Festival, the Chinese Autumn Festival, the Chinese Independence Day celebration, among others. Similarly, the CI has also served as an avenue for the introduction of African cultures to Chinese scholars. Despite this important role, no scholarly study has been devoted to analyzing the role of the Confucius Institute in Africa with special focus on the University of Lagos. This gap in knowledge has undermined our understanding of the Confucius Institute as an instrument for the projection of Chinese culture and global diplomacy. The study aims to investigate the critical areas of intervention of the Institute in the promotion of Chinese culture and language. It adopts the narrative and analytical methodology to analyze the activities of the institute vis-à-vis the impact of the Institute on Africa. It recommends that effective management of the Confucius Institute is a sine qua non for the projection of China’s soft power diplomacy.
- ItemOpen AccessLagos 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.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Language Of Terror And The Terror Of Language In Postmodernist Drama.(University of Lagos Press, University of Lagos Akoka, Yaba - Lagos Nigeria., 2008) Ezenwanebe, O.C.
- ItemOpen AccessLarger than his Frame II: Further Critical Studies and Reflections on Olu Obafemi’(National theatre, Nigeria Iganmu, Lagos, Nigeria in conjunction with Alpha Crownes Publishing Ltd 107 Windmill Street Rochester, United Kingdom and Department of English University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2021) Oni, D; Ododo, S.ETwenty years ago, Sunday Ododo and I embarked on an ambitious project of editing a festschri in honour of Olu Obafemi at 50. It has been two decades since that project was completed and presented to the public. How time ies! that publication which literarily and literally became an acronym for Professor Olu Obafemi was aptly titled Larger than his Frame: Critical Studies and Reections on Olu Obafemi. The publication was presented at the University of Lagos with Chief Bola Ige as Special Guest of Honour and Professor Jelili Omotola (the then Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos) as Chief Host, while General David Jemibewon was represented by his Special Adviser. Unfortunately, both Chief Ige and Prof. Omotola are late; may their souls rest in peace.