• Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice

    Author(s):
    Adewale Bankole Ajayi (see profile)
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    GS Drama and Performance, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, MS Opera and Musical Performance, TC Popular Culture, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Africa, Area studies, Culture--Study and teaching, Ethnomusicology, Music--Performance, Performance art--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    ethnomusicology, performance, orality, African studies, Cultural studies, Music performance, Performance studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6SD72
    Abstract:
    Coloniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The performers have had to respond in a variety of ways but one dominant form of artistic response has been the adaptation and utilization of non-indigenous musical styles to create hybrid musical products and performances stabilized with indigenous elements. The efforts of Akande Abolore aka 9ice in this regard has become significant in that he has brought into what he calls afro hip-hop the copious use of oral resources. He builds his musical style on orality, combining oral elements with oral sensibilities from his indigenous Yoruba language to forge a new form in which there is an interaction of codes, forms and levels of creative expression. He is thereby concretising a norm in Nigerian musical performance in which indigenous elements dominate western ones and in which Nigerian music speaks to the world in her own terms. Keywords: post-coloniality, orality, musical performance, oral forms, call and response
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    Publisher:
    Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
    Pub. Date:
    2012
    Journal:
    African Notes: Journal of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
    Volume:
    36
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    240 - 255
    ISSN:
    0002-0087
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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