Meet BELLO ABAYOMI OMOTOYOSI, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
Ethnomusicology And Art Music
Associate Professor / Reader
Theatre Arts
At the Theatre Arts department office
Appointment on Visitation important
| # | Certificate | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ph.D (African Studies Music ) | Institute of African Studies/University of Ibadan, Ibadan | 2014 |
Indigenous African Musical Instruments: Beats That Touches The Soul
Introduction:
The indigenous African Musical instruments form the canon and motivational force by which African music forms, patterns and styles thrive within religious worship, ritual enactments, ceremonies and recreational performances.
Despite the central place of musical instruments in African performance culture, 21st-century modernity especially with the coming of Western colonizers, to Africa, relegated the indigenous African musical instruments to the background.
Aim and objectives: This research will explore the significant place of indigenous African instruments in African music performance culture by unveiling the positive effects of the application of indigenous African musical instruments introduced into the various forms of music genre and performance styles in contemporary African society, especially in Nigeria.
Besides preserving and promoting the usage of indigenous African musical instruments, a good number of hybridized and rejuvenated forms of African beats capable of touching the soul of a typical African have been emerging with the fusion of indigenous African musical instruments with Western instruments across the African world.
This research will discuss the nature of Indigenous African Musical Instruments, the spiritual and emotional power of African beats, the, diversity of African Musical Instruments across the continents, the reawakening embrace of Indigenous African Musical Instruments, and the craftsmanship, evolution and revitalization of Indigenous instruments.
Conclusion: The use of indigenous African musical instruments in contemporary times aids the preservation, rejuvenation, popularization, and continuity of African performance culture and traditions by which typical Africans are carving out a nitch for themselves.
BELLO ABAYOMI is a Associate Professor / Reader at the Department of Theatre Arts
BELLO has a Ph.D in African Studies Music from Institute of African Studies/University of Ibadan, Ibadan
