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Popular Music and Identity Formation among Kenyan Youth
(Taylor \& Francis, 2016)The role of music in the formation and shaping of identity cannot be gainsaid since music represents an important cultural sphere where identities are affirmed, challenged, torn apart and reconstructed. Many young people ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
More than Just Good Feelings: Advocacy for Music among Mainstream Subjects
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)In many world cultures music plays a central role in life’s activities (from birth to death) of the communities and in some instances it is said to be inseparable from daily activities. In Kenya these attributes of music ... -
Mila: exploring music education instructional promise of selected Kenyan folk songs
(Kenyatta University, 2007)Teaching Music with a Multicultural Approach has received significant scholarly attention as contemporary society seeks increased diversity avenues. Invariably multicultural instructional material is drawn from folksongs ... -
Expressing Power and Status through Aesthetics in Mijikenda Society
(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1998-06)This article pinpoints the dynamic interaction of aesthetics, power and status in 'traditional' society. The article adopts the functionalist approach as being the most appropriate in understanding the multi-functionality ... -
Healing Dances: A Case Study of the Luo Juogi and the Dawida Mwazindika Dances
(International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 3 No. 2 [Special Issue – January 2012], 2012-01)During miend juogi and mwazindika dance ceremonies, the dancers dramatize the activities of the healing process. To perform the act of cleansing the possessed, and the cleanser move to the possessed, and pours water on the ... -
Innovation: A measure for the control of cultural changes in the survival for the Luo thum traditions
(Academic Journals, 2011)Thum is amorphous because it has broadened its corpus to include not only the Luo lyre, but also the fiddle, accordion and guitar musics unlike what was before the coming of Europeans. The introduction of the acquired ... -
Indigenous Kenyan Music and Social Wellbeing: the Contribution of Arts Education towards a Healthy Society
(2013)The discourse surrounding the term wellbeing is broad and wide since it encompasses a range of conditions by which a person's healthy state of being may be defined. These conditions include: inter alia, health, safety, ... -
Creativity and Interdisciplinary Linkages: the Visual and Performing Arts and Other Disciplines
(2013)Creativity has been linked to various contexts and meanings in the cultural, political, economic, religious, and educational milieu. Though most of the early writers attributed the concept of creativity to the arts such ... -
Musical Contexts as Bridge - builders in Early Childhood Music Education in Kenya
(Min - Ad : Israel Studies in Musicology Online, 2012)The article presents information on the integration of music education in early childhood education in Kenya. It is stated that considerable progress has been made in the nationalization of early childhood music education; ...
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Popular Music and Identity Formation among Kenyan Youth
(Taylor \& Francis, 2016)The role of music in the formation and shaping of identity cannot be gainsaid since music represents an important cultural sphere where identities are affirmed, challenged, torn apart and reconstructed. Many young people ... -
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 ... -
More than Just Good Feelings: Advocacy for Music among Mainstream Subjects
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)In many world cultures music plays a central role in life’s activities (from birth to death) of the communities and in some instances it is said to be inseparable from daily activities. In Kenya these attributes of music ... -
Mila: exploring music education instructional promise of selected Kenyan folk songs
(Kenyatta University, 2007)Teaching Music with a Multicultural Approach has received significant scholarly attention as contemporary society seeks increased diversity avenues. Invariably multicultural instructional material is drawn from folksongs ... -
Expressing Power and Status through Aesthetics in Mijikenda Society
(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1998-06)This article pinpoints the dynamic interaction of aesthetics, power and status in 'traditional' society. The article adopts the functionalist approach as being the most appropriate in understanding the multi-functionality ... -
Healing Dances: A Case Study of the Luo Juogi and the Dawida Mwazindika Dances
(International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 3 No. 2 [Special Issue – January 2012], 2012-01)During miend juogi and mwazindika dance ceremonies, the dancers dramatize the activities of the healing process. To perform the act of cleansing the possessed, and the cleanser move to the possessed, and pours water on the ... -
Innovation: A measure for the control of cultural changes in the survival for the Luo thum traditions
(Academic Journals, 2011)Thum is amorphous because it has broadened its corpus to include not only the Luo lyre, but also the fiddle, accordion and guitar musics unlike what was before the coming of Europeans. The introduction of the acquired ... -
Indigenous Kenyan Music and Social Wellbeing: the Contribution of Arts Education towards a Healthy Society
(2013)The discourse surrounding the term wellbeing is broad and wide since it encompasses a range of conditions by which a person's healthy state of being may be defined. These conditions include: inter alia, health, safety, ... -
Creativity and Interdisciplinary Linkages: the Visual and Performing Arts and Other Disciplines
(2013)Creativity has been linked to various contexts and meanings in the cultural, political, economic, religious, and educational milieu. Though most of the early writers attributed the concept of creativity to the arts such ... -
Musical Contexts as Bridge - builders in Early Childhood Music Education in Kenya
(Min - Ad : Israel Studies in Musicology Online, 2012)The article presents information on the integration of music education in early childhood education in Kenya. It is stated that considerable progress has been made in the nationalization of early childhood music education; ... -
Synchronising pedagogy and musical experiences in early childhood: addressing challenges in preschool music education in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-08)This paper examines pedagogy in early childhood music education and the resultant learning experiences in music for children in Kenyan preschools. Two important principles proposed for the synchronisation of teaching and ... -
Music and meaning: Some reflections through personal compositions
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-08)On 31 May 2007, with the cooperation of musicians from Kenyatta University1 and Goethe-Institute; (German cultural centre) in Nairobi, I had the privileged opportunity to share several premiere compositions with the ... -
A Conceptual Framework for Research in Music and Music Education Within a Cultural Context
(University of Ilinois Press, 2000)Music education in Kenya has been, and continues to be conducted along Western theories which fall short of defining music as experienced within traditional African cultures (New, ¡980; Omondi, 1980; Kwami, 1989; Akuno, ...
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