Kwara State University
Oluwatosin Ibitoye
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Designation: Lecturer
Department: PERFORMING ARTS
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| 1 | The Musicality of Olu Obafemi’s Illuminations: Songs, Dances, from the Belly of Time as a Performance Poetry |
Poetic compositions and its performative realities through music are in tandem. Hence, poetic compositions especially in Africa are best performed in sine qua non with music. Olu Obafemi’s Illuminations: Songs, Dances, from the Belly of Time exemplifies a collection of poems embedded with musical aesthetics. Therefore, this study reviews and analyses selected poems in the collection from the perspective of a musicologist. This study reflects on the musical and realistic performance aesthetics of Illuminations: Songs, Dances, from the Belly of Time as illustrated by Olu Obafemi in his writing. This study reveals that, the collection is unarguably a performance poetry. The literary piece creates an ambience of different creative explorations for a willing music director. Obafemi draws his compositional tools, devices and materials in the collection from his immediate socio-cultural environment. The poetic lines create dramatic, historical and nostalgic images in the minds of readers which give a directorial clue for a holistic musical and artistic interpretation. This study concludes that the structure of the poems creates an atmosphere for experimental musical expression and it is best interpreted and enjoyed as a performance poetry. | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350923384_The_Musicality_of_Olu_Obafemi's_Illuminations_Songs_Dances_from_the_Belly_of_Time_as_a_Performance_Poetry | |||||