RP-School of Visual and Performing Arts: Recent submissions
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Newspaper Audiences’ Gains from Reading News about Parliament in Kenya
(Reviewed Journal International of Business Management. www.reviewedjournals.com, 2023)Gate-keeping in journalism is of vital importance in the media environment today. In Kenya, the role of media in the safeguarding of transparency of democratic processes in modern-day politics and society cannot be ... -
Drawing With My Students’ - The Role of Surrealism in Self-Expression among University Art Students. Analysis of Selected Surrealistic Work by Fourth Year Students at Kenyatta University
(International Journal of Advanced Research, 2021-02)Surrealistic art is one of the most engaging and intriguing art genres. Surrealism itself is considered to have been the most influential art movement of the 20th century. Started in the 1920s as a literary movement that ... -
Developing Vocal Music Assessment Schedule: An Analysis in Synchrony to the Current Systems in Kenyan Universities
(African Musicology Online, 2019)This paper sought to address the process through which universities in Kenya assess vocal music performance. The analysis was drawn against a checklist of 19 items that sought to develop a schedule ... -
Tools for Assessment and Evaluation of Vocal Music among Selected Universities in Kenya
(African Musicology Online, 2019)Vocal music performance occupies a dominant position in Kenya’s musical landscape yet academic study has raised numerous debates concerning its assessment and evaluation. It has been realized that performance in the arts ... -
The Nzaiko of the Akamba: Music and Gender Identity Construction in the Community
(International Journal of Innovative Research and Knowledge, 2018-02)One is born male or female (biological gender) but is exposed to social dictates to perform the roles expected of him or her in that society (Kameli, 2011). Gender identity is ones private sense of being a man or a woman, ... -
Tero Buru: The Luo Musical Extravaganza and a Rite in a Rite
(Academic Journals, 2011-05-14)Tero Buru was one of the Luo rites of passage performed at the funerals of adult members of the community. As a funeral rite, it was performed as the last rite before the body of the deceased is washed and taken to the ... -
The Significance of Stylistic Evolution of Kamabeka on the Bukusu Culture from 1945 to 2015
(International Journal of Science Arts and Commerce, 2018-02)Technological, economic, social, religious, political and educational agencies have strongly impacted on the Babukusu lives and their music in particular. Their performances of kamabeka have shifted in time, venue and ... -
Crises Experienced in Church Organizations: The Case of Parklands Baptist Church Nairobi Kenya
(IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS), 2017-03)This study evaluated crisis preparedness in churches and focused mainly on crisis communication in Parklands Baptist Church (PBC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The study’s main objective was to find out the types of crises that ... -
Factors Contributing to the Onset and Continuation of Drug Abuse among Secondary School Students in Mombasa County, Kenya
(International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE), 2017-05)Adolescence is a period of significant developmental changes associated with the onset of drug abuse worldwide. This study was set up to examine some of the factors associated with the onset and escalation of drug abuse ... -
Theatre as a Campaign Tool against Drug and Substance Abuse in Selected Kenyan Schools Plays
(African Journal of Alcohol & Drug Abuse, 2020-12-31)The Kenya National Drama Festival Committee, the organizers of the National Schools, Colleges and Universities Drama Festival usually enters into a sponsorship agreement with other institutions to help in disseminating ... -
Effect of Viewing Emotionally Laden Paintings on Attitudes of Male Sex Offenders
(International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2021-02)Creative arts are overly caricatured as non-essentially flossy and unmerited luxury particularly when executed in a jail setting. However, research suggests that art-based prison programs can significantly bear upon the ... -
The Influence of Presentation Format on Responses of Male Sex Offenders to Digital Paintings that illustrate the Consequences Sexual Crimes
(Macrothink Institute, 2021-03-20)Although art viewing experiences occur in varied contexts, responses of audience may be profoundly affected by the presentation format. In this paper, focus is drawn upon participation in a digital paintings exhibition ... -
Interpretation of Surrealism among University Fine Art Students - Analysis of Selected Surrealist Work by Fourth Year Students at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
(ENSO, 2022-04)Surrealism, whether in drawing or painting, remains an engaging and fascinating Art style and continues to be of great influence in the way artists, including students of Art, perceive self-expression and generation of new ... -
Corollaries of Size: Encumbrances of Childhood in West-Indian Fiction
(Royallite Global, 2018)Perhaps the child’s physical and mental sizes contribute more to the position a child is bestowed in a society. Childhood has been viewed as an epitome of weakness and infirmity of both body and soul. This has been the ... -
Generation and Interpretation of Sculptural Ideas in Large Scale Stone Sculptures Placed in Outdoor Public Spaces: An Analysis of the Stone Sculptures of Gerald Motondi Oroo.
(East African Nature & Science Organization, 2021)This paper presupposes that there is no artwork, in this case, large-scale outdoor sculptural work, that is undertaken without a defined ‘intent’; the extent and description of which depends on the individual artist and ... -
Play with Painting & Clay: A Re-Booth of Psychoanalysis Healing on a Child Affected By COVID-19
(East African Nature & Science Organisation, 2021)The world is awakening to the nursing of devastating COVID-19 pandemic effects that resulted in the closure of school among others. Children’s welfare, especially playing was obstructed due to COVID-19 pandemic ... -
‘Drawing with my Students’ – Development of Clothed Life Drawings among University Fine Art Students. Analysis of Selected Drawings by Second Year Students at Kenyatta University
(East African Nature & Science Organisation, 2021)Students of Fine Art are introduced to drawing in their first year and human figure drawing in their second year. It is presumed that they have already had some element of earlier exposure in other levels of prior studies. ... -
The Role of Hyperrealism in Painted Portraiture –Engaging Culture: Analysis of Portraiture by Eddy Ochieng
(East African Nature and Science Organization, 2020)Portraiture remains one of the most fascinating genres of Art; it is engaging, intriguing and often, perhaps, a little controversial. Portraiture has been executed through the centuries in a variety of styles and media and ... -
Changing Spectres: Interweaving Loops in Kenyan Theatre
(Royallite Global, 2020)Theatre critics have proclaimed the death of serious theatre on the stages of Kenya, arguing that all that could be seen are slapstick comedies which cannot survive beyond stage performance. Theatre and art in general is ... -
Concomitants of socio-cultural exigencies on narrative preferences in the Kenyan “Riverwood” film
(Royallite Global, 2017)In a report commissioned by the World Story Organization in 2008, Justine Edwards points out that storyline lies at the centre of problems that Kenyan films face in trying to “break down the wall preventing Kenyan ...