Lazare

1993 · réf. 028903 — Lagos Nigeria: LENAUS Advertising and Publishing Ltd 1993. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Cover is in Good condition -- only mildly rubbed. NO chips or tears. FINE condition inside. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. Bound in the original brown pictorial wraps. From Wikipedia: "Lazarus Edward Nnanyelu Ekwueme born 28 January 1936 popularly known as Laz Ekwueme is a Nigerian musicologist composer scholar and actor. He is one of the pioneer lecturers of music in Nigeria and also a prolific writer. He is a scholar who has written numerous articles and books on music especially the role of music in the lives of Africans and Africans in diaspora. He is the traditional ruler of Oko Kingdom. While studying in Britain he embraced the theatre and he was an actor in some African films produced by the African Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. He left Britain in 1964 and returned to Nigeria where he took up a faculty position at the University of Nigeria Nsukka. As a lecturer of music composition theory history singing and conducting he was an important member in the pioneering Nigerian music department at Nsukka which was the first to award music degrees in the country. He also gave considerable attention to choral music organising the University of Nigeria Choral Society a group of foreign and local students who performed regularly in Nsukka. In 1966 he went abroad to obtain a post graduate degree in music theory from Yale University. He also taught at the college and a few other colleges in America. While at Yale he founded the New Haven International Chorus. In 1974 he returned to Nigeria this time he was given a faculty position by Jacob Ade Ajayi in the newly created department of music at the University of Lagos and also appointed as a research fellow in the Center for Cultural Studies. It was while in Lagos he formed the Laz Ekwueme National Chorale that was a highly respected African choral group. Overtime with experience in musical experimentation he became one of the few early Nigerian composers to produce successful musical syncretism of African choral works using western forms and techniques with the result generating wide appeal among Africans and little difficulties or distortion in conveying meaning of the words being song.5 For his effort in music composition and conducting he was made the coordinator of the Nigerian National Choir at the Black Arts Festival Festac 77. As a music scholar he explored distinctive indigenous African rhythm and melody in some songs of the New world and American music a theme that was one of the vocal points of his research efforts. As a researcher he spent time studying musical patterns of Africans Caribbean and African Americans. He noticed the similarities in ways in which African Americans in Louisiana and Africans in Dahomey sing songs. Also the importance and employment of music in cardinal events in the lives of Africans and those in diaspora is a theme prevalent in many of his research efforts.". 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. Good - Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 219pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. LENAUS Advertising and Publishing Ltd Paperback