JOHN FUNMI RAPHEAL

Music

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Topic: Music Performance

Description: My studies on music performance has been mainly in the area of Western Art Music, Arts Music in Nigeria, Popular and Folk or Traditional Music. It focuses on the presentation of folk songs in the contemplative art concert arena. Researches on Musical Performances of Traditional Badagry Ogu Musical ensembles. Results from these studies have been applied to music performances in both African and Western musical idioms. Instrumental music performances exhibiting the fusion of Western and African Musical Idioms presented as Art and Experimental Music.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (Music)	Lagos State University, Ojo	2026

MORAL RELATIVISM IN JUJU MUSIC: THE CASE OF EBENEZER OBEY FABIYI’S THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE DONKEY

The debate on Africa’s non-existent rich cultural heritage is long dead and buried. This is evident in almost all areas of life in the typical African man’s endeavours. There is moral relativism in African music, which explains the African worldviews and their differences from those of their Western counterparts. This research focuses on the philosophy of music, which involves interrogating and examining the methodologies employed in music. Torrents of research have shown that Eurocentric scholars are of the view that Africans
do not have the capacity for rational thinking. However, such derogatory comments are fallacious and misleading because Africans have proven beyond doubt that they are capable of critical thinking just as their Western counterparts. The concern of this research is to show the philosophical ideologies in the Juju music of Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi. The research also finds that the principle of morality is entrenched in the Juju
music of Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi, which serves as a catalyst for moral and cultural development. Through the method of hermeneutics, this research seeks to employ Immanuel Kant’s moral principle of universality as a theoretical framework. This
research uses Kant’s moral principle of universality to address the moral relativism problem in Ebenezer Obey’s The Man, the Son and the Donkey.Kant’s moral principle of universality is
a duty-based ethic concerned with how people should always engage in what is right. Since ethics is the systematic study of the principles of morality, there are some moral principles entrenched in the traditional Yoruba juju music, which, if well adhered to, will bring about the end to moral decadence in society. The argument of this research proceeds from three presuppositions. Firstly, music is a sine-qua non of sustainable
development in any society. Secondly, Juju music emanated

JOHN RAPHEAL is a Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Music

JOHN has a Ph.D in Music from Lagos State University, Ojo