ABSTRACT Body enhancement has been a long standing culture in Ghana and the rest of the Currently, breasts and buttocks enhancement has become a new trend of body enhancement in Ghana. In the study, the researcher has sought to investigate into the current trends of body enhancement of female breasts and buttocks. The study addressed the rational, negative implications and experiences of breasts/buttocks enhancement from the enhanced persons, medical experts and non-enhanced breasts and but...
ABSTRACT In trying to expand the modern post-tonal music practices and techniques, using traditional idioms, this work is focused on Apatampa dance music (a recreational dance of the Fante people in the Central Region of Ghana) in an original composition named ‘The Fruits of Apatampa.’ The study seeks to explore the rhythmic resources of Apatampa dance music in a contemporary art composition. It blends new trends in contemporary art compositions with traditional drum idioms found in Apata...
ABSTRACT The main goal of this work is investigating the challenges of teaching traditional music in Ghanaian schools. It focused on the interest of students in traditional music, the attitude of teachers in the teaching of traditional music, and looked at the content and methodology, and then the materials and musical instruments used to teach traditional music. The study used the qualitative research paradigm. The research method used for the research is the case study. The study involved ...
ABSTRACT An important musical type that supports farmers’ activities at Kpandu and its environs, to ensure their welfare and survival through subsistence farming is agblehawo, a term which literally means “farmers’ music”. This study sought to explain why the s4hewo (the youth), of Kpandu up to date, cling to the performance of agblehawo in the face of other varied forms of music to which they are exposed. To explain this socio-musical behaviour of the s4hewo, the conceptual framework...
ABSTRACT To yield the educational value of music education in schools, most music educators align music education with aesthetic education. Accordingly, the development of the aesthetic responsiveness and sensitivities of students have been widely embraced. Yet, there is little or no information regarding the delivery of music education which, in part, can contribute to the evocation of important aesthetic experience in listeners. This research work was an attempt to study the aesthetic respo...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to evaluate the music teacher programme of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) towards meeting the federal government’s aspiration of making its education relevant to the child and society, and provision of quality specialist music teachers in their number for the primary and junior secondary schools. The research paradigm that guided the study was constructivist interpretative of concurrent mixed method. The sample size of 16 music...
ABSTRACT This thesis researched into the Creative Processes, Structures and Performance of Shrine Music of the Northern Ewes. I focused on three shrines at the Awudome Traditional Area in Ghana as a case study. As its methodological approaches, I combined focus groups discussion and one-on-one interviews. The overriding objectives of this study are to move the history of Awudome from the realm of oral tradition into a written document; and to investigate the creative processes in composition ...
ABSTRACT The research sought to find out the art of the discharged mental patients who were once inmates of the Kumasi rehabilitation centre Cheshire Home Edwenase, who were taught art activities in textiles by the researcher and has been discharged to their respective communities. The scope of the research was limited tothe art of the discharged mental patients which involves a follow up of some selected discharged mental patients who were once inmates in theKumasi Rehabilitation Centre (Ch...
ABSTRACT This research work is prompted by the need to investigate into the factors militating against students’ performance in Music and Dance in the St. Francis College of Education in Ghana. The general objective of the study was to identify how challenges faced by Music and Dance students of St. Francis College of Education should be addressed. The descriptive survey method was used for the study. The researcher also employed a qualitative sampling technique of purposive sampling ...
ABSTRACT The concept of emotion is one that is deeply connected to both Musical Preferences (MP) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) inter alia. In fact, many people identify different emotions in their day-to-day engagements with different musical types. Identification of emotions in stimuli such as in sounds, faces and pictures has also been established ipso facto by scholars as an important aspect of EI. It thus appears axiomatic that aspects of music and emotional intelligence should be signi...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the techniques used by the small garment manufacturing figures in Ghana in this era of technological advancement with high level of global market competition. This was vital in order to change the image of the small garment industry in Ghana to maximize productivity for sustained and optimum returns as the sub-sector struggles to survive in the local and global markets. The study employed multiple case study as the research design. Purposive and stratifi...
ABSTRACT The study examined how teachers, caregivers and handlers employ music in their daily activities and the type of songs used. It inquired into the contribution of songs and musical activities in the teaching and learning process and the response of pupils to music in their studies at early childhood. It also ascertained the teachers’ and handlers’ ability to use music and its qualities in the teaching process. In addition, it also found out the resource situation for music ma...
ABSTRACT So far as the musical interculturalism in African art music is concerned today, this study focuses on how an artist acquainted with both traditional music and western contemporary practices can create a novel piano piece that is a hybrid of the two worlds. The study adopts the bi-musicality and African pianism theories of Euba (1992) and Webster’s (1996) creative thinking model as its conceptual framework. In the composition, themes were borrowed from ‘Kyekyekule’ (a children�...
ABSTRACT The practice of theatre for development (TfD) unequivocally thrives on language. Therefore, the issue of linguistic diversity may influence the communication process in TfD in terms of attainment of expected outcomes, especially in multi-ethnic communities. Focusing on Nima, a multi-ethnic community in the Accra metropolis, this study explored the potential of multilingual theatre for TfD communication in order to assess the impact of linguistic diversity on the effectiveness o...
Abstract The study focused on the pedagogical factor in the primary school music curriculum of Ghana which emanated from an observation made in some Ghanaian primary schools. The observation showed that several teachers in Ghanaian primary schools have difficulties in planning and presenting lessons on the musicrelated sections of the Creative Arts syllabus. It was therefore, aimed at investigating the ability levels of the primary school teacher in implementing the music curriculum as well...