Breaking barriers and stimulating dance accompaniment to popular music in Nigeria
March 2023
Dances are part of our socio cultural identities in Nigeria. They are performed for different purposes and at different settings such as home, social gatherings, religious centres, schools, concert halls, dance halls and theatres. Some dance steps are peculiar to certain ethnic groups within each geo-political zone in Nigeria. These peculiarities of dance steps are seemingly going into oblivion. This paper seeks...
Letter #5: Reflexions on perception-action in the creative process of Entre voos e quedas
November 2022
This article reflects on the artistic research that originated the video-performance Entre voos e quedas. In this research, the interaction between the authors during the creative process is discussed anchored on a perception-action perspective, even when the authors were apart during the COVID-19 pandemics. Also discussed is how our creative approach is anchored in a multi-modal perspective. This is because visual...
Examining “The book”: How perception, power, and practice altered memory of Irish Ceili dances
January 2021
This paper is an ethnographic examination and exploration of the power politics of the Ar Rinci Foirne and the subsequent changes in perceived nationalism, stylizations, and memory of Irish dance as it refers to both the practiced repertoire and textual archive of ceili dancing within Ireland and the Diaspora. The researcher examined each iteration of the Ar Rinci Fiorne antecedent and relevant texts the socio-political...
Cultural suppression of female gender in Nigeria: Implications of Igbo females’ songs
June 2020
The widespread of domestic violence is a social problem awakening the interest of different organizations, governments and people as a result of its negative consequences. Female gender in Nigeria has been marginalized, stereotyped and humiliated in various ways resulting in negative impacts on them such as depression, physical disability and even death. Music has been found to be an avenue for the female folk to...
The Basarwa melon throwing circle dance (Siqciru/Sigcuru): The case of Kaudwane village in Kweneng West District of Botswana
November 2019
This paper aims at examining the practical use of the melon dance by Basarwa (San) of Kaudwane village in the Kweneng West District of Botswana. Basarwa is a group of people who originate from the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR). Taking into consideration the Basarwa traditional way of life, this research focuses mainly on women and girls as the main participants of the melon dance music genre. Some authors refer...
Perceiving patterns of ratios when they are converted from relative durations to melody and from cross rhythms to harmony
January 2018
This research aims to study the perception of relative durational and cross-rhythm patterns when they are converted into melodic or harmonic patterns. Twenty-four international students from Groningen conservatoire were given twenty- four trials; twelve deals with their melodic/harmonic perception ability and the other twelve deals with the ability to perceive the converted rhythmical patterns. The purpose of the...
Efforts to improve music education in Turkey
June 2017
It is seen how state policies are effective in education when it is thought that education is organized according to the principle of making the individual useful for the community. Given that education policies should be effective in all areas of education, music education is expected to be present in a common political attitude in the fields of general, ethical and professional music education...
Girl child education and enrollment drive: The role of traditional music and dance
October 2016
The study is set out from an intervention perspective using music and dance as a vehicle for enhancing the enrollment drive and retention of girls in basic schools. It was a qualitative research under the auspices of “Ghana Wins” project that involved pupils, parents and teachers of New Winneba Municipal Assembly Primary and Junior High School to deepen their understanding on how Music and Dance has the...
Framework for music improvisation and performance: Body/instrument and body/mind connections
February 2016
This study elucidates connections between the body and music presenting a proposal based on workshops and a theoretical viewpoint. Firstly it describes the main principles of the workshops that have been developed to work with music improvisation and group interactions. At the workshops the study approach music improvisation based on the dialogues and transformation of musical processes and structures extracted from...
Expressing joy through hip-hop dance steps: Focus on new jack swing
January 2016
This study aimed to differentiate hip-hop dance steps based on whether joy was expressed and explained their movement features using three-dimensional motion analysis. Ten male and female participants (26.9 ± 12.8 years old) were instructed to perform an 80-second hip-hop dance, and the step performed after 60 s (new jack swing) was analyzed. Discriminant analysis was conducted, and the differences in the motion...
Exploring the complexities of black male identities in South African theatre dance
August 2015
The perception of professional black male dancers in black communities in South Africa is that of a homosexual man. However, little if any systematic research has investigated the validity of this stereotype, much less the reasons why male sexual orientation would be associated with interest in dance. Many male dance figures pursuing dance as a career in Cape Town, South Africa have often been faced with difficult...
A synchronic study of semantics in selected Akan choral compositions in Ghana
June 2015
In the performance traditions of choral music in Ghanaian community, understanding the text of the music is but one facet of extremely important aspects in performance. Unfortunately, some of the texts of some recent choral music compositions lack linguistic semantic representations. Performers are only mindful of the rhythm, melody and its associated harmony without even if the meaning of the song is not clear to them....
The technical reviews of Ligeti Piano Etude No.4 Fanfares
May 2015
Ligeti’s etude Fanfares extends the technical skills demanded of the modern pianist and many incorporate completely new techniques. This etude, which was composed around 1985 consists of some of the most technically demanding issues composed for the piano in the last decades of the 20th century. Through the study of this work the pianist is pushed in new directions as Ligeti extends the limits of the pianistic...
Playing out loud: Jazz music and social protest
March 2015
This article addresses the historical relationship between jazz music and political commentary. Departing from the analysis of historical recordings and bibliography, this work will examine the circumstances in which jazz musicians assumed attitudes of political and social protest through music. These attitudes resulted in the establishment of a close bond between some jazz musicians and the Civil Rights Movement in the...
Origin and development of ‘Directing’ in juju music performance
October 2014
Juju music as a unique Nigerian popular genre has so many African phenomena inculcated into its performance though it has some western touches in its scale and some other features. Hence this paper examined one of the African phenomena – directing, in the performance of juju music. This write up was based on the conducted research and in order to present a genuine report, live performances and the recordings of...
When the music moves you: Revisiting the classics in the company of neuroscience
September 2014
When the music moves you, you dance. The bodily movement that develops in response to music is what is here considered “dance.” Philosophers have long understood music as possessing the power to move us. This paper employs Heinrich Wolfflin’s theory of “sympathetic modeling”—a theory recently validated by neuroscientists’ discovery of mirror neurons in...
Erotic expressions in Adowa dance of the Asante: The stimulating gestures, costuming and dynamic drumming
June 2014
Contemporary Ghanaians seem to have turned away from expressing or otherwise patronising their cultural eroticism or integrating it successfully in modern dynamic lifestyles. This research focuses on erotic expressions in the Adowa dance of the Asante by examining the sensual characteristics of the dance, a resurrection of awareness hopefully will be highlighted for possible integration into contemporary forms of...
Music technology: A perceptive prospect
May 2013
Carnatic Music is holistic and scientific with physics and mathematics. Nowadays songs are taught, not music. It is practiced as a copying art, but not with innovation. To alleviate this, concept oriented initiative by adopting modern frontiers of scientific knowledge under “Music Technology Courses” is conceived to unfathom the music doctrinaire treatise by R&D. Isolation of science and technology is...
The contribution of dancing in the socio-emotional development of children at extracurricular activities in a Portuguese primary school
May 2013
Dance encourages independence, initiative and self-esteem and contributes to a substantial enrichment in the teaching-learning process and in the acquisition of cognitive, psychomotor and socio-emotional skills. In this study, 55 students, both genders and various ethnic groups, with ages from 6 to 11 years old were observed. Movement games, Hip Hop and Modern jazz and...
Dancers' perceptions of injuries
March 2012
Dance socioculture encourages dancers to perform through pain and injury and influences whether dancers will take time off in the event of an injury. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact dancers' mind-set and enculturation had on their decision to continue to train and perform through injury. Fifteen trained dancers (5 males and 10 females), age 27.7±14.25 years, completed a survey...
Ditlhaka music learning and practices through transmission among the Batlokwa and Balete of Botswana
March 2012
Based on ongoing field research into Botswana music and dance, this article deliberates on information found out on ditlhaka (river - reeds) traditional music as practiced by the Balete and Batlokwa of South Eastern Botswana. The paper was conceived from tribal collaborations between ethnomusicology music classes’ village excursions and the respondents in an effort to understand Balete and...
The cello: An amazing musical instrument
January 2011
The cello is truly a spectacular instrument to have survived for hundreds of years and to be steadily gaining popularity in the 21st century. There is a long history of the instrument and its accompanying components-the bow, rosin, parts of the cello-as well as of its players. With the cello’s rich, deep, powerful sounds, it is no wonder that the instrument has been so successful and continues to...
The creative process in the context of jazz jam sessions
January 2011
This paper discusses jazz musicians’ creative processes in the context of jam sessions from an ethnomusicological perspective. It is the result of research carried out with professional jazz musicians working and living primarily in New York City. As an important context for sharing musical information, jam sessions will be analyzed as a framework for the demonstration of ideas, musical skills and...
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