Moses Nii-Dortey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moses Nii-Dortey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moses |
| FAMILY NAME | Nii-Dortey |
| SIGNATURE | NII-DORTEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Revitalising Ghana’s operatic tradition through performance-based research and artistic reconstruction
This study details a complementary set of performance-based research strategies for revitalising ‘The Lost Fishermen’ – arguably the most popular of Saka Acquaye’s endangered folk operas. Acquaye’s folk operas, which premiered in the 1960s in Ghana as part of a global Pan-African identity consciousness through the arts, were threatened with extinction by the mid-1990s. Their endangerment was occasioned, paradoxically, by the socio-political milie…
Mapping Africa’s musical identities
The National Symphony Orchestra of Ghana plays Ghanaian Classics
Fifty-six years after its establishment, the Ghana National Symphony Orchestra in 2015 recorded its debut album Ghanaian Classics at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Despite the overwhelming challenge of low patronage of art music in Africa generally, the choice of repertoire and composers for this historic album was largely drawn from the Ghanaian popular music domain. This paper investigates the extent to which the …
Liveness, Multifocality, Eavesdropping in Ethnomusicological Fieldwork Research at Ghanaian Festivals and Royal Funerals
Ethnomusicological research that involves live, sprawling, multifocal and integrated ceremonies often present liveness-induced challenges that may undermine the authenticity of the research outcomes. )is article describes multifocal and integrated music making performances such as festivals and royal funerals in Ghana and how the vagaries of liveness are largely responsible for nuanced peculiarities which every live musical performance assumes. )…
Folk Opera and the Cultural Politics of Post-Independence Ghana
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Folk Opera and the Cultural Politics of Post-Independence Ghana
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Liveness, Multifocality, Eavesdropping in Ethnomusicological Fieldwork Research at Ghanaian Festivals and Royal Funerals
Ethnomusicological research that involves live, sprawling, multifocal and integrated ceremonies often present liveness-induced challenges that may undermine the authenticity of the research outcomes. )is article describes multifocal and integrated music making performances such as festivals and royal funerals in Ghana and how the vagaries of liveness are largely responsible for nuanced peculiarities which every live musical performance assumes. )…
The National Symphony Orchestra of Ghana plays Ghanaian Classics
Fifty-six years after its establishment, the Ghana National Symphony Orchestra in 2015 recorded its debut album Ghanaian Classics at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Despite the overwhelming challenge of low patronage of art music in Africa generally, the choice of repertoire and composers for this historic album was largely drawn from the Ghanaian popular music domain. This paper investigates the extent to which the …
Mapping Africa’s musical identities
Revitalising Ghana’s operatic tradition through performance-based research and artistic reconstruction
This study details a complementary set of performance-based research strategies for revitalising ‘The Lost Fishermen’ – arguably the most popular of Saka Acquaye’s endangered folk operas. Acquaye’s folk operas, which premiered in the 1960s in Ghana as part of a global Pan-African identity consciousness through the arts, were threatened with extinction by the mid-1990s. Their endangerment was occasioned, paradoxically, by the socio-political milie…
Music History and Culture (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · History (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work)