Review Paper
Year: 2023 | Month: March | Volume: 10 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 236-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230326
Indigenization and Educative Implication of Otito Lo Ye Ka Se by Kayode Samuel
David Bolaji
Ph.D. Department of Music, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
The advent of British colonialism gave rise to Western education, Christian religion, and art music in Nigeria. Consequently, since many Nigerians have embraced Western art music, there have been sustainable efforts to indigenize and promote Africanism in Nigerian art music. Part of these efforts owes much to a number of Nigerian ethnomusicologists and composers, one of whom indeed, is Kayode Samuel whose outstanding scholarship and advocacy of nationalism cannot be overemphasized. His creative composition, which involves the use of a pentatonic scale attributed to the African scale, stands as the backdrop of this study. Thus, this study examines the promotion of indigenization and the sociocultural educative lessons embedded in the understudied composition, Otito Lo Ye Ka Se. A textual analytical technique is adopted for the study to unravel how the composer captures the alteration of the lexical tone of the Yoruba language. The theoretical framework for this study is the indigenous standpoint theory stated by Coatest, S.K., and Trudgett 2002. Findings reveal that the Africanism of the under-study piece stands as a solid medium through which indigenization is captured in cross-examined composition. Also, the embedded sociocultural educative lessons in the composition show that telling lies is a destructive behaviour that negates the promotion of healthy living, and should not be promoted in any society.
Keywords: Indigenization, Otito Lo ye Ka se, Creative application, Nigerian art music, and Kayode Samuel
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