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Techniques of Assessing Students’ Vocal Music Performance by Selected Universities in Kenya: Investigating Conformity with Procedural Evaluation Frameworks
(Kenyatta University, 2020-06)Vocal music performance occupies a dominant position in the musical landscape of Kenya yet scholars have had numerous debates as to how music should be assessed and evaluated. Instructional refinement and related matters ... -
Popular Music in Kenya:A survey and Evaluation of Performing Strategies among Selected Groups in Nairobi
(2013-03-20)This study focused' on Popular Music in Kenya. In their daily endeavors within the entertainment industry, Kenyan Popular musicians employ performance strategies meant to draw their audience closer and to maximize on ... -
Rap music in the hip-hop culture among the youth in Nairobi
(2013-01-22)Since early 1 ~:NUs, the music industry in Kenya witnessed an exponential infiltration of Hip-Hop culture and its element of Rap music, which claimed significant space on the Kenyan popular music landscape. The youth ... -
Preservation and promotion of indigenous music in Uganda: A Challenge for Tertiary education institutions
(2012-11-05)Preservation and promotion of indigenous music through generations has depended on active practice guided by elders as the makers and practitioners of these genres of music. However, the presence of European Christian ... -
Indigenous Music and the communication of selected innovative social concerns: synchronic analysis of Dodo and Nyatiti songs in Siaya district, Kenya
(2012-01-05)This study investigated the communicative viability of Dodo and Nyatiti music among the rural population of Siaya District. Specifically, the study sought to: 1. Analyze the structural, melodic and rhythmic attributes ... -
The use of song and movement to create a multicultural curriculum for early childhood music education in Kenya
(2011-11-23)Early childhood musical development has gained research prominence in recent years. Researchers and early years' educators, in response to findings that musicality begins before birth, are continually seeking ways to tap ... -
A critical analysis of indigenous Kenyan music procedures: developing the embedded pathway approach model for interactive learning for secondary schools in Kenya
(2011-07-25)This study was carried out against a backdrop of current educational process in Kenya which (the process) is heavily grounded on Western education models. These models, unfortunately, were not known for including African ... -
Developing strategies for teaching aural musicianship in Kenyan secondary schools
(2011-07-25)Many scholars, for example Kodaly, Dalcroze and Campbell would argue for the important role of aural musicianship in Music Education. One of the purposes of Music Education is the creation of an environment in which the ... -
An analysis of musical and theological meaning in the hymnody of legio maria of african mission church in Kenya.
(2011-07-25)Review of available literature showed a paradoxical hybridity in the hymn singing of Legio Maria of African Mission Church in Kenya, abbreviated herein as LMC faithful (jolejo). were viewed as preferring a community of ...
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Techniques of Assessing Students’ Vocal Music Performance by Selected Universities in Kenya: Investigating Conformity with Procedural Evaluation Frameworks
(Kenyatta University, 2020-06)Vocal music performance occupies a dominant position in the musical landscape of Kenya yet scholars have had numerous debates as to how music should be assessed and evaluated. Instructional refinement and related matters ... -
Popular Music in Kenya:A survey and Evaluation of Performing Strategies among Selected Groups in Nairobi
(2013-03-20)This study focused' on Popular Music in Kenya. In their daily endeavors within the entertainment industry, Kenyan Popular musicians employ performance strategies meant to draw their audience closer and to maximize on ... -
Rap music in the hip-hop culture among the youth in Nairobi
(2013-01-22)Since early 1 ~:NUs, the music industry in Kenya witnessed an exponential infiltration of Hip-Hop culture and its element of Rap music, which claimed significant space on the Kenyan popular music landscape. The youth ... -
Preservation and promotion of indigenous music in Uganda: A Challenge for Tertiary education institutions
(2012-11-05)Preservation and promotion of indigenous music through generations has depended on active practice guided by elders as the makers and practitioners of these genres of music. However, the presence of European Christian ... -
Indigenous Music and the communication of selected innovative social concerns: synchronic analysis of Dodo and Nyatiti songs in Siaya district, Kenya
(2012-01-05)This study investigated the communicative viability of Dodo and Nyatiti music among the rural population of Siaya District. Specifically, the study sought to: 1. Analyze the structural, melodic and rhythmic attributes ... -
The use of song and movement to create a multicultural curriculum for early childhood music education in Kenya
(2011-11-23)Early childhood musical development has gained research prominence in recent years. Researchers and early years' educators, in response to findings that musicality begins before birth, are continually seeking ways to tap ... -
A critical analysis of indigenous Kenyan music procedures: developing the embedded pathway approach model for interactive learning for secondary schools in Kenya
(2011-07-25)This study was carried out against a backdrop of current educational process in Kenya which (the process) is heavily grounded on Western education models. These models, unfortunately, were not known for including African ... -
Developing strategies for teaching aural musicianship in Kenyan secondary schools
(2011-07-25)Many scholars, for example Kodaly, Dalcroze and Campbell would argue for the important role of aural musicianship in Music Education. One of the purposes of Music Education is the creation of an environment in which the ... -
An analysis of musical and theological meaning in the hymnody of legio maria of african mission church in Kenya.
(2011-07-25)Review of available literature showed a paradoxical hybridity in the hymn singing of Legio Maria of African Mission Church in Kenya, abbreviated herein as LMC faithful (jolejo). were viewed as preferring a community of ...
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