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Title: | Intercultural Creativity in Joshua Uzoigwe's Music |
Author: | Sadoh, Godwin |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 74 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 633-661 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | music musicians Architecture and the Arts Literature, Mass Media and the Press Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
About person: | Joshua Uzoigwe |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3556844 |
Abstract: | This essay presents Joshua Uzoigwe as a Nigerian intercultural composer. A short biography of the composer shows the influence of two cultures - Nigerian (Igbo/Yoruba) and European - on his creative outputs. Uzoigwe's experience in the two cultures has enabled him to compose music which is a synthesis of Nigerian and European musical idioms. His works are classified into five categories: folk song arrangements, choral works, chamber music, piano solo works, and orchestral works. His creative style exhibits purely original compositions and works in which Nigerian musical elements are directly utilized. The essay discusses the following aspects of Uzoigwe's music: elements of tonal organization, elements of dance, elements of musical conception, and instrumentation. The issues of biculturalism, national identity and the search for a Nigerian audience are some of the problems Uzoigwe attempts to solve in his compositions. App., bibliogr., notes, sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |