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Title:Intercultural Creativity in Joshua Uzoigwe's Music
Author:Sadoh, GodwinISNI
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 UzoigweISNI
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]
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