Music http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/7693 2025-09-27T17:06:22Z 2025-09-27T17:06:22Z Samuel, K. M. Ajose, T. S. http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/7700 2022-10-18T10:06:33Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ‘Orin Ori-Oke’: A thematic examination of songs used in Ikoyi prayer mountains, Osun State, Nigeria Authors: Samuel, K. M.; Ajose, T. S. Abstract: 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 analysis Description: In: S. N. Yaovi, P. U. Nwosu, A. G. Alamu, L.E. Odeh & A. Y. Mohammed. Ori-Oke Spirituality and Social Change in Africa: Contemporary Perspectives, Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2018. Pp. 491 - 506

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Ajose, T. S. http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/7699 2022-10-18T09:53:51Z 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Social discourse in the songs used at Ede prayer mountain, Osun State, Nigeria Authors: Ajose, T. S. Abstract: Studies have discussed the significance of traditional and contemporary songs and prayers in various religious domains across cultures. What we sing and/or pray about is to a very large extent socially constructed since prayer and music have communicative roles, especially in a religious context. Existing studies have focused attention on the spiritual constructs of songs and prayers but adequate attention has not been paid to the social implications of the songs used in Christian worship, particularly in non- conventional church spaces such as prayer mountains. This study investigates various social discourses in the songs used at Ede Prayer Mountain, Osun State. Nigeria, using the social constructionism as theoretical framework. Through ethnomusicological method of data collection, interviews were conducted with eight purposively selected participants at Ede Prayer Mountain. Also, songs recorded during the study were content analysed with the purpose of highlighting various social narratives in the songs. The study, concludes that the songs used at Ede Prayer Mountain are not purely religious in their discourse but to a large extent are entwined with social commentary

2018-06-01T00:00:00Z Ajose, T. S. http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/7698 2022-10-18T09:45:33Z 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Instrumental Organization in Bunuzdogbe music of the Aganyin people of Badagry, Lagos Authors: Ajose, T. S.

2022-05-01T00:00:00Z Ajose, T. S. http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/7697 2022-10-18T09:44:46Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Performance practices in the music of the Aganyin people of Badagry, Lagos Authors: Ajose, T. S. Abstract: One of the factors responsible for cultural dynamism is acculturation which is engendered by cultural interactions over a period of time. Music, a cultural product in African society is functional as it performs social, historic, linguistic and religious roles to mention a few. This paper examines the ethnography of the Aganyin people in Badagry with a view to highlight the various performance practices in the music of the Aganyin. Using qualitative method as tool of enquiry, this study reveals the various modes of recruiting and training of musicians in Aganyin Community. Structural analysis of some selected Aganyin songs were done based on their scale System, tonality, harmony, texture and form. Data for this study were gathered through interview, Observation, archival materials, library and internet materials

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