Music and Social Dynamics in Nigeria

Bode Omojola is Five College Professor of Music, teaching at Mount Holyoke College and the other institutions of the Five College Consortium, namely, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Omojola obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in England, and has held the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Cologne, Germany. A former Radcliffe Institute Fellow in Musicology at Harvard University, Omojola was the founding National Secretary of the Musicological Society of Nigeria (now the Association of Nigerian Musicologists). He currently chairs the Five College African Studies Council of the Five College Consortium. His previous books include Yoruba Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency and Performance Practice (2012) and Nigerian Art Music (1995).

• Bode Omojola: Introduction: Perspectives on Music and Social Dynamics in Nigeria – Laz. E. N. Ekwueme: Music in Nigeria’s Social Development: A Step Forward – Richard C. Okafor: The Emergence of Neo-Traditional Forms in Contemporary Church Music in Eastern Nigeria – Tunji Vidal: From Traditional Antiquity to Contemporary Modernism: A Multilateral Development of Music in Nigeria – Ademola Adegbite: Change and Continuity in Yoruba Socio-religious Music – Christian Onyeji: Playing Technique and Contemporary Compositions for the Oja (Wooden Flute) – J. O. Ofosu: Modernity and Ovwuvwe: A Sociocultural Process of the Abraka in Urhoboland – Taiye Adeola: Aesthetics in Yoruba Music: Case Study of the People of Igboho – Emeka T. Nwabuoku: Toward a Human Interest in Ethnomusicology: The Practice and Transformation of the Uyi Edo – Ngozi Mokwunyei: Igbo Social Music: Focus on a Nigerian Delta-Igbo Entertainment Dance Group – Oluyemi Olaniyan: Resource Avenues for the Creative Performance of Dundun Music – Sam Olu Amusan: Ègè of the È̩gbá: Its Musical Essence – A. K. Achinivu – The Performer Is a Creative Artist and a Researcher: The Case of the Performer in Institutions of Higher Learning in Nigeria – Lucy V. Ekwueme: Music in the Secondary School Curriculum in Nigeria – Femi Faseun: Professional Requirements of Secondary School Music Teachers for the Implementation of the Music Curriculum in Nigeria – Ranti Adeogun: The Nature of and Approaches in Research in Music Education – Joshua Uzoigwe: The Process of Composing Talking Drums – Bode Omojola: Compositional Style and the Search for Identity in Nigerian Art Music – Oluwalomoloye Bateye: Fela Sowande and Posterity: Whither Nigerian Music? – C. E. Ugolo: Music in Nigerian Traditional Dance Performance – Segun Oyeleke Oyewo: Working Dynamics in Directing an Opera for Stage: Bode Omojola’s Ode for a New Morning – Adolf Ahanotu: The Performing Arts: Music, Dance and Drama—Contributions to National Development – Ayo Akinwale: Music and the Nigerian Theatre: The New Social Dynamics – References – Contributors – Index.