Music Education Research Papers/Topics

NEGOTIATING RELIGIOUS IDENTITY THROUGH DANCE IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GHANA: A CASE STUDY OF IMMANUEL CONGREGATION, MADINA.

ABSTRACT Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a particular cultural group. As a form of self-expression and communication, dance has the power to bring people together in peaceful coexistence. This thesis examines dance as a tool for identity negotiation in the church. It focuses on the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, specifically the Immanuel congregation at Madina, Accra. The Presbyterian Church was the first Christian church to be instit...

AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF SELECTED CHORAL WORKS OF COSMAS WORLANYO KOFI MEREKU

ABSTRACT This study explores the compositional stylistic traits of C.W.K. Mereku through formal analysis of his choral works. It highlights the extent to which Mereku uses traditional idioms and styles in his compositions. Through descriptive research design and analytical approach, it was found out that Mereku usually has simple melodies and his usage of tunes to text in his compositions usually follows the speech surrogate or the sound culture of the owners of the language used. Furthermo...

The Impact of Chale Wote Street Art Festival in James Town, Accra

ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of the Chale Wote Street Art festival in James Town in the Accra Metropolis of Ghana. A descriptive case study design was employed for the study and purposive sampling technique was employed to select the respondents consisting of 14 people: 2 festival Organizers, 4 Members of the Host Community, 2 Participating Artists, 3 festival Attendees, 2 Sponsors and 1 official from the Centre for National Culture were drawn for the study. The instruments used i...

THE FRUITS OF APATAMPA

ABSTRACT In trying to expand the modern post-tonal music practices and techniques, using traditional idioms, this work is focused on Apatampa dance music (a recreational dance of the Fante people in the Central Region of Ghana) in an original composition named ‘The Fruits of Apatampa.’ The study seeks to explore the rhythmic resources of Apatampa dance music in a contemporary art composition. It blends new trends in contemporary art compositions with traditional drum idioms found in Apata...

Challenges of Teaching Traditional Music in Ghanaian Schools: Study of Three Selected Private Schools in Kasoa

ABSTRACT The main goal of this work is investigating the challenges of teaching traditional music in Ghanaian schools. It focused on the interest of students in traditional music, the attitude of teachers in the teaching of traditional music, and looked at the content and methodology, and then the materials and musical instruments used to teach traditional music. The study used the qualitative research paradigm. The research method used for the research is the case study. The study involved ...

AGBLEHAWO (FARMERS’ MUSIC): Their Status and Impact on Farming Communities of Kpandu, Volta Region, Ghana.

ABSTRACT An important musical type that supports farmers’ activities at Kpandu and its environs, to ensure their welfare and survival through subsistence farming is agblehawo, a term which literally means “farmers’ music”. This study sought to explain why the s4hewo (the youth), of Kpandu up to date, cling to the performance of agblehawo in the face of other varied forms of music to which they are exposed. To explain this socio-musical behaviour of the s4hewo, the conceptual framework...

A STUDY OF THE AESTHETIC RESPONSES OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO MUSIC

ABSTRACT To yield the educational value of music education in schools, most music educators align music education with aesthetic education. Accordingly, the development of the aesthetic responsiveness and sensitivities of students have been widely embraced. Yet, there is little or no information regarding the delivery of music education which, in part, can contribute to the evocation of important aesthetic experience in listeners. This research work was an attempt to study the aesthetic respo...

AN EVALUATION OF THE MUSIC TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR BASIC SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOUTH-EASTERN STATES

ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to evaluate the music teacher programme of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) towards meeting the federal government’s aspiration of making its education relevant to the child and society, and provision of quality specialist music teachers in their number for the primary and junior secondary schools. The research paradigm that guided the study was constructivist interpretative of concurrent mixed method. The sample size of 16 music...

CREATIVE PROCESSES, STRUCTURES AND PERFORMANCE OF SHRINE MUSIC OF THE NORTHERN EWES: THE CASE OF AWUDOME PEOPLE OF GHANA

ABSTRACT This thesis researched into the Creative Processes, Structures and Performance of Shrine Music of the Northern Ewes. I focused on three shrines at the Awudome Traditional Area in Ghana as a case study. As its methodological approaches, I combined focus groups discussion and one-on-one interviews. The overriding objectives of this study are to move the history of Awudome from the realm of oral tradition into a written document; and to investigate the creative processes in composition ...

Textile Art as an Effective Vocational Tool for Rehabilitating Discharged Mental Patients

ABSTRACT The research sought to find out the art of the discharged mental patients who were once inmates of the Kumasi rehabilitation centre Cheshire Home Edwenase, who were taught art activities in textiles by the researcher and has been discharged to their respective communities. The scope of the research was limited tothe art of the discharged mental patients which involves a follow up of some selected discharged mental patients who were once inmates in theKumasi Rehabilitation Centre (Ch...

CHALLENGES OF MUSIC AND DANCE STUDENTS IN ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, HOHOE

ABSTRACT This research work is prompted by the need to investigate into the factors militating against students’ performance in Music and Dance in the St. Francis College of Education in Ghana. The general objective of the study was to identify how challenges faced by Music and Dance students of St. Francis College of Education should be addressed. The descriptive survey method was used for the study. The researcher also employed a qualitative sampling technique of purposive sampling ...

MUSIC AND EMOTION: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSICAL PREFERENCE AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

ABSTRACT The concept of emotion is one that is deeply connected to both Musical Preferences (MP) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) inter alia. In fact, many people identify different emotions in their day-to-day engagements with different musical types. Identification of emotions in stimuli such as in sounds, faces and pictures has also been established ipso facto by scholars as an important aspect of EI. It thus appears axiomatic that aspects of music and emotional intelligence should be signi...

THE USE OF SONGS IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD: A STUDY OF SELECTED SCHOOLS IN THE OFORIKROM SUB-METRO OF THE ASHANTI REGION

ABSTRACT The study examined how teachers, caregivers and handlers employ music in their daily activities and the type of songs used. It inquired into the contribution of songs and musical activities in the teaching and learning process and the response of pupils to music in their studies at early childhood. It also ascertained the teachers’ and handlers’ ability to use music and its qualities in the teaching process. In addition, it also found out the resource situation for music ma...

“Kyekyekule Sonata"

ABSTRACT So far as the musical interculturalism in African art music is concerned today, this study focuses on how an artist acquainted with both traditional music and western contemporary practices can create a novel piano piece that is a hybrid of the two worlds. The study adopts the bi-musicality and African pianism theories of Euba (1992) and Webster’s (1996) creative thinking model as its conceptual framework. In the composition, themes were borrowed from ‘Kyekyekule’ (a children�...

Multilingualism in Theatre for Development Communication: A Study of NIMA

ABSTRACT The practice of theatre for development (TfD) unequivocally thrives on language. Therefore, the issue of linguistic diversity may influence the communication process in TfD in terms of attainment of expected outcomes, especially in multi-ethnic communities. Focusing on Nima, a multi-ethnic community in the Accra metropolis, this study explored the potential of multilingual theatre for TfD communication in order to assess the impact of linguistic diversity on the effectiveness o...


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