Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus
Biographic Data
| ID | 643714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emaeyak Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Sylvanus |
| SIGNATURE | SYLVANUS E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7502-5523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Music and political identity salience in Nigeria's 2023 presidential election
Exploring how trends in Nigerian popular gospel music shape religious pedagogy
This article explores how trends in contemporary Nigerian popular gospel music shape religious pedagogy. By drawing on ethnographic data as well as situating popular music creative and stylistic dispositions within theological discourses, we present evidence of convergence between the sacred and popular culture to reveal both engaging and emerging ways for communicating theological truths in Nigeria. We note that the bearers of religion in Nigeri…
Popular Music, Deviance and Moral Panics in Nigeria: The Music of Naira Marley
This paper interrogates the issue of deviance and moral panics associated with popular music production in Nigeria. Relying on qualitative and netnographic data, the paper explores contested perspectives on the music of Naira Marley, which is generally laden with censured themes of vulgarity, substance abuse, and loose sexuality. Naira Marley’s music has generated much moral controversy in Nigeria owing mainly to media criticisms, which follow fr…
Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?' Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria
Today, differences in popular music genres and practices can be attributed to different peoples and cultures of the world in much the same sense as the shared and varied degrees of personality cult traditions. In this respect, Nigeria ranks amongst others with a unique and demonstrable popular music and personality cult culture. Of the available literature, none addresses the relationship between popular music and personality cult in Nigeria. Thi…
Reflections on Nigerian musical arts and culture
Locating Nollywood Film Music at the Intersection of Individualism and a Commodified Identity
This article specifically examines how individualism has shaped both the practice and cultural identity of film music in mainstream Nollywood since 1997. The argument is that the perceived localized approach to film music has sustained an existing conservative school of thought as well as the notion of a "commodified identity." As a commodity, Nollywood film music reflects a certain intensity of the "African present," which this article explores …
The Relevance of Music to African Commuting Practices: The Nigerian Experience
The relevance of music to African commuting practices and sociocultural experiences offers interesting perspectives, not least, for an ethnomusicology of public culture. Of the different functional modes of public transportation available in modern Nigeria, road transportation is the most patronised. Following an ethnographic approach, and with reference to cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology, this article examines the nature of and reasons…
Prefiguring as an Indigenous Narrative Tool in Nigerian Cinema: An Ethnomusicological Reading
Prefiguring entails the use of music to predict dialogue and scenes in film. It is prevalent in the cinematic productions of both the ethnic-based film industries in Nigeria and mainstream Nollywood. Theoretically, prefiguring is a function of indigenous storytelling practices, the appropriation of which conjures up layers of meaning for the local practice, practitioners, and audiences. Relying on in-depth textual analyses, composers' accounts, a…
A Brief History of TV and TV Music Practice in Nigeria
While attempts have recently been made to theorise film and film music practice in Nigeria, its televisual counterpart is characterised by a dearth of musicological inquiry. As an original and preliminary contribution, this article interrogates and explains how television and TV music practice have been approached in Nigeria from 1959 to date. In light of this survey, two distinct periods have emerged: the protectionist (1959–1989) and the open (…
Nolly-Holly: Negotiating identity in film music
Since becoming a globally recognized film industry, mainstream Nollywood has broadened its activities to include international co-productions. These co-productions present instances of cross-cultural tensions and borrowings between Nollywood and its foreign cinema counterparts. Given such tensions, this article explores notions of resistance and complicity in the film music process, and how identity is negotiated in such global co-productions. Ad…
Performing ethnicity in Nollywood film music: The power of texted music
The general assumption of this article is that ethnicity is constituted in both process and performance. The article discusses ethnicity in Nollywood film music by specifically examining the local film composers’ representative practice through which musical value and meaning are generated. The focus is on the interconnected and narrativised relationship of texted music (music with words) and the moving image. The article is based on an analysis …
The business of film music in mainstream Nollywood: Competing Without Advantage
This article addresses the business of film music in mainstream Nollywood. It does so by focusing on the materiality of the industry as an institution: its social organisation and systems of film music production; markets; networks; and power relations. Specifically, the arguments rely on social organisational theories, and economic concepts such as vertical integration and market competition alongside inferences from interviews with insider-prac…
Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?' Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria
Today, differences in popular music genres and practices can be attributed to different peoples and cultures of the world in much the same sense as the shared and varied degrees of personality cult traditions. In this respect, Nigeria ranks amongst others with a unique and demonstrable popular music and personality cult culture. Of the available literature, none addresses the relationship between popular music and personality cult in Nigeria. Thi…
The Relevance of Music to African Commuting Practices: The Nigerian Experience
The relevance of music to African commuting practices and sociocultural experiences offers interesting perspectives, not least, for an ethnomusicology of public culture. Of the different functional modes of public transportation available in modern Nigeria, road transportation is the most patronised. Following an ethnographic approach, and with reference to cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology, this article examines the nature of and reasons…
Performing ethnicity in Nollywood film music: The power of texted music
The general assumption of this article is that ethnicity is constituted in both process and performance. The article discusses ethnicity in Nollywood film music by specifically examining the local film composers’ representative practice through which musical value and meaning are generated. The focus is on the interconnected and narrativised relationship of texted music (music with words) and the moving image. The article is based on an analysis …
Prefiguring as an Indigenous Narrative Tool in Nigerian Cinema: An Ethnomusicological Reading
Prefiguring entails the use of music to predict dialogue and scenes in film. It is prevalent in the cinematic productions of both the ethnic-based film industries in Nigeria and mainstream Nollywood. Theoretically, prefiguring is a function of indigenous storytelling practices, the appropriation of which conjures up layers of meaning for the local practice, practitioners, and audiences. Relying on in-depth textual analyses, composers' accounts, a…
Nolly-Holly: Negotiating identity in film music
Since becoming a globally recognized film industry, mainstream Nollywood has broadened its activities to include international co-productions. These co-productions present instances of cross-cultural tensions and borrowings between Nollywood and its foreign cinema counterparts. Given such tensions, this article explores notions of resistance and complicity in the film music process, and how identity is negotiated in such global co-productions. Ad…
The business of film music in mainstream Nollywood: Competing Without Advantage
This article addresses the business of film music in mainstream Nollywood. It does so by focusing on the materiality of the industry as an institution: its social organisation and systems of film music production; markets; networks; and power relations. Specifically, the arguments rely on social organisational theories, and economic concepts such as vertical integration and market competition alongside inferences from interviews with insider-prac…
A Brief History of TV and TV Music Practice in Nigeria
While attempts have recently been made to theorise film and film music practice in Nigeria, its televisual counterpart is characterised by a dearth of musicological inquiry. As an original and preliminary contribution, this article interrogates and explains how television and TV music practice have been approached in Nigeria from 1959 to date. In light of this survey, two distinct periods have emerged: the protectionist (1959–1989) and the open (…
Nolly-Holly: Negotiating identity in film music
Since becoming a globally recognized film industry, mainstream Nollywood has broadened its activities to include international co-productions. These co-productions present instances of cross-cultural tensions and borrowings between Nollywood and its foreign cinema counterparts. Given such tensions, this article explores notions of resistance and complicity in the film music process, and how identity is negotiated in such global co-productions. Ad…
Performing ethnicity in Nollywood film music: The power of texted music
The general assumption of this article is that ethnicity is constituted in both process and performance. The article discusses ethnicity in Nollywood film music by specifically examining the local film composers’ representative practice through which musical value and meaning are generated. The focus is on the interconnected and narrativised relationship of texted music (music with words) and the moving image. The article is based on an analysis …
The business of film music in mainstream Nollywood: Competing Without Advantage
This article addresses the business of film music in mainstream Nollywood. It does so by focusing on the materiality of the industry as an institution: its social organisation and systems of film music production; markets; networks; and power relations. Specifically, the arguments rely on social organisational theories, and economic concepts such as vertical integration and market competition alongside inferences from interviews with insider-prac…
Prefiguring as an Indigenous Narrative Tool in Nigerian Cinema: An Ethnomusicological Reading
Prefiguring entails the use of music to predict dialogue and scenes in film. It is prevalent in the cinematic productions of both the ethnic-based film industries in Nigeria and mainstream Nollywood. Theoretically, prefiguring is a function of indigenous storytelling practices, the appropriation of which conjures up layers of meaning for the local practice, practitioners, and audiences. Relying on in-depth textual analyses, composers' accounts, a…
Reflections on Nigerian musical arts and culture
Locating Nollywood Film Music at the Intersection of Individualism and a Commodified Identity
This article specifically examines how individualism has shaped both the practice and cultural identity of film music in mainstream Nollywood since 1997. The argument is that the perceived localized approach to film music has sustained an existing conservative school of thought as well as the notion of a "commodified identity." As a commodity, Nollywood film music reflects a certain intensity of the "African present," which this article explores …
The Relevance of Music to African Commuting Practices: The Nigerian Experience
The relevance of music to African commuting practices and sociocultural experiences offers interesting perspectives, not least, for an ethnomusicology of public culture. Of the different functional modes of public transportation available in modern Nigeria, road transportation is the most patronised. Following an ethnographic approach, and with reference to cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology, this article examines the nature of and reasons…
Popular Music, Deviance and Moral Panics in Nigeria: The Music of Naira Marley
This paper interrogates the issue of deviance and moral panics associated with popular music production in Nigeria. Relying on qualitative and netnographic data, the paper explores contested perspectives on the music of Naira Marley, which is generally laden with censured themes of vulgarity, substance abuse, and loose sexuality. Naira Marley’s music has generated much moral controversy in Nigeria owing mainly to media criticisms, which follow fr…
Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?' Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria
Today, differences in popular music genres and practices can be attributed to different peoples and cultures of the world in much the same sense as the shared and varied degrees of personality cult traditions. In this respect, Nigeria ranks amongst others with a unique and demonstrable popular music and personality cult culture. Of the available literature, none addresses the relationship between popular music and personality cult in Nigeria. Thi…
Exploring how trends in Nigerian popular gospel music shape religious pedagogy
This article explores how trends in contemporary Nigerian popular gospel music shape religious pedagogy. By drawing on ethnographic data as well as situating popular music creative and stylistic dispositions within theological discourses, we present evidence of convergence between the sacred and popular culture to reveal both engaging and emerging ways for communicating theological truths in Nigeria. We note that the bearers of religion in Nigeri…
Music and political identity salience in Nigeria's 2023 presidential election
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