Invitation to Music
Conference (NACOMPA 2017)
DEPARTMENT
OF MUSIC
FACULTY
OF ARTS
4th
Biennial National Conference of Music and the Performing Arts (NACOMPA) 2017
May 30 - 31, 2017
THEME: MUSICAL PLURALITY AND THE NIGERIAN POLITY
At the dawn
of the 21st century, the argument for the primacy of the so-called serious
music has come under a heavy attack. As opinions on meaning and value of music
diverge sharply, a compromise is reached; that instead of a unitary global
typology, there is a plurality of discrete music types that constantly engage
stakeholders in musical creativity, performances, research, education,
technology, polemics, and even governance. Within the known categories of folk,
popular, art, and World Music exist a striking multiplicity of music genres and
sub-genres that define the extent and ‘borders’ of today’s musical plurality.
Expressions and studies in musical diversity are pursued within the real and
virtual spaces provided and regulated by sovereign states and their agents.
This conference is aimed at grilling the features and dynamics of musical
plurality and how they affect the educational, professional, socio-cultural,
and economic lives within the Nigerian political boundaries.
Chairman: Honorable Chief John Nnia Nwodo,
Ike Ukehe, (President, Ohaneze NdIgbo,
Worldwide)
Keynote speaker: Professor Dan C. C. Agu
(UNIZIK)
Lead paper presenter: Professor Chris U.
Agbedo (UNN)
Chief Host: Professor Benjamin Chukwuma
Ozumba (VC, UNN)
Host: Professor Chris U. Onyeji (Dean,
Faculty of Arts)
Co-host: Dr. (Mrs.) M. C. Anya-Njoku
(HoD, Music)
You are cordially invited!
Convener: Dr. Ikenna E. Onwuegbuna
(Chair, Conference Organising Group)
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