ABSTRACT There has been a concern about the quality and depth of the musical leanings accruing from school musical performances. The concern in Ghana is the level of technical ability students are able to achieve and how instructors are able to help their students develop acceptable technical control over the musical instruments they are studying. Unfortunately, no study has been done in this area in Ghana. Employing a mixed methods design with a sample of 10 Basic School Bands and 90 scores ...
ABSTRACT There has been persistent, drastic decline of the Textile Industry in Ghana which i s awfully affecting the study of textiles in Ghanaian Textiles education institutions. Upon this foundation, the study sought to examine and discuss the impact of the decline o f Ghana’s textile industry on textiles education in Ghana. The objectives of the study among others were to identify and document the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of t he Ghanaian Textile Industry, problems that...
ABSTRACT The study adopted a mode of creativity/dynamic approach through the synthesis of Dagaaba gyil genre and Western compositional techniques and approaches. To ground the study in the rich cultural traditions of the Dagaaba people of Winneba and Kasoa in the Central Region of Ghana an anthropological documentation formed an important part of the study. The study adopted Nketia‟s syncretic approach theory (1982), the bi-musicality, African Pianism theories of Euba (1992) and Webster‟...
ABSTRACT The work was a study to examine songs that aid reading among three selected kindergarten schools in Agona Kwanyarko traditional area. It highlights songs that are appropriate for teaching reading skills. Through convenience sampling and purposive sampling techniques, the study used three selected kindergarten schools and collected 46 songs for analysis and categorization for teaching specific elements of reading. The study was also rooted in the cognitive development and multiple i...
ABSTRACT Art music composers from Ghana have been working seriously since the colonial days to develop the genre till today. As every composer has his own style of writing art music, Kenn Kafui, who is the subject of this study has his unique styles of writing art music. The study sought to find out if innate experiences (whether tonal, melodic, rhythmic, timbral) from ones environment enhance creativity and innovation of new musical works. Th...
ABSTRACT The study is a by-product of an acculturation of music that uses the creative dynamism mode, and deliberately searches the musical elements of the Aboakyer festival of the Effutu of Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana. It integrates these elements with the Western compositional techniques to create a relatively unique hybrid atonal programmed music of the African. The research adopted the aesthetic functionalism theory on social functions wherein meaning of music is derived...
ABSTRACT Unlike choral art and popular music, the military band is still hooked to its umbilical cord of using fundamentally Western music as its repertoire. It has been my strongest desire that a sensitization be done on the need to adopt and adapt our rich cultural heritage to ensure that our military band music also becomes part of the global musical discourse. This quest ignited the study that focused on the Kinka genre of the Avenorpedo people of the Volta Region in Ghana. The res...
ABSTRACT The study espoused the idea of music acculturation in the mode of creative dynamism, consciously searching the elements of the Samanpiid festival of the Kusasi people of the Upper East Region and amalgamating it with the Western compositional techniques to create a relatively atonal programmed music of the African and more especially the Kusasi tradition. The study was conducted among the Kusasi people of Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana. It adopted aesthetic functionalism t...
ABSTRACT The study was a studio-based research on Aluminum statues and the immortalization of Ghanaian sporting legends, that exhibits praxis and exegesis of Azumah Nelson’s statue. It advances the immortalization of Ghana’s most outstanding sporting legend and material sustainability which is rendered in scrap aluminum sculpture. It encourages the Ghanaian sculptor to contribute positively to Ghana’s history by sculpting Ghana’s sports legends in their daily practice. The study...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the cognitive, psychomotor and psychosocial values of folk games, how these games can develop life skills in school children and its integration in teaching and learning. The study focused on three selected districts from the central region of Ghana. Of each selected district, two basic schools were chosen for the study with teachers, parents and pupils being the target population. The convenience sampling technique under non-probability sampling was used...