Music
Permanent URI for this communityhttps://repository.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/12256
Browse
2 results
Search Results
Item ‘Orin Ori-Oke’: A thematic examination of songs used in Ikoyi prayer mountains, Osun State, Nigeria(Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 2018) Samuel, K. M.; Ajose, T. S.Prayer Mountaineering is a dominant religious activity practised by Christians in Africa; it represents a culture of setting apart specific spaces such as groves, thick forests, hilly places and mountains, river banks and so forth by African Indigenous Churches (AICs) for spiritual exercises. Prayer Mountains were peculiar places where founders of many AICs encountered divine interactions and over time have become places where a myriad of religious activities, including observance of prescribed period of seclusions, offering of special prayers and related activities take place. There is a proliferation of Prayer Mountains in Oyo, Osun and Ekiti states. While religious, social and economic activities of Prayer Mountains have received scholarly investigation, no known study has examined their musical activities. This study, therefore, investigates the musico-cultural practices taking place in Ikoyi Prayer Mountains, Osun State, Nigeria, using ethnographic research approach. It also identified thematic orientations and attendant dynamics embedded in the song texts. Songs were musically represented using Sibelius 7.5 music notation software and data subjected to content analysisItem Assessing the relevance of the entrepreneurship module in general studies courses to music students in Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun state, Nigeria(Association of Nigerian Musicologists, 2021) Ajose, T. S.The increasing rate of unemployment is a major concern in many growing economies in Africa, including Nigeria. As a pragmatic response to the unpleasant Situation, the Nigerian government introduced entrepreneurial education in institutions of higher learning, designed to equip students with essential skills needed to be job creators-entrepreneurs, rather than job seekers after graduation. These entrepreneurship courses are generally taught to students across disciplines under the General Studies (GST) Programme of different institutions. The question, then, is: can these entrepreneurial courses adequately prepare music students for entrepreneurship in the music industry? The article, therefore, assesses the relevance of entrepreneurial course(s) taught by the GST Programme to music students. It discusses the students' understanding of entrepreneurship within the context of musical arts. The study employed a survey research design with the use of structured questionnaires. Sixty undergraduate students (male, N=32, female, N= 28) of the Department of Music, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), who offered GST entrepreneurship courses in the university, were randomly selected from 100 to 400 levels. Results showed a mixed Position; one on hand, the larger percentage of the students agreed that the concept of entrepreneurship taught in GST curriculum is very relevant to music. On the other hand, most students agreed that GST entrepreneurship courses are not sufficient in preparing them for music entrepreneurship. This article argues that entrepreneurship taught out of the context of music to music students may be counterproductive. Therefore, the study öfters some recommendations and further challenges music educators and scholars alike in rethinking music entrepreneurship education as essential 'add-ons' to the scholarship and practice of music for human capacity development in Nigeria