Ruth Opara
Biographic Data
| ID | 99429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Opara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Opara |
| SIGNATURE | OPARA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1946-4943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Songs and female names in contemporary Nigeria: A Mother’s Prayer or Men’s Muse
Inverse relationships between cultural sustainability and human rights: The counterintuitive cases of Nigerian Avu Udu dance and white-power music
This article examines ethical complexities of sustaining and safeguarding intangible cultural practices. Could safeguarding efforts violate human rights? In what circumstances could allowing a practice to die out be more ethically defensible than seeking to sustain it? And when, if ever, might it be ethically defensible to attempt to ‘kill’ a cultural practice? Presenting and employing a conceptual matrix to theorise the relationships between cul…
Cool Running: The Story of Ghana's Honk Horn Lorries and Por Por Music
Focusing on por por music, this multimedia project is the result of over a decade of collaboration and research involving the Driver's Union in Ghana, Ghanaian oral historian Nii Yemo Nunu, American ethnomusicologist Steven Feld, and German photographer Hannah Schreckenbach. Por por music is a genre that utilizes squeeze-bulb honk horns, bells, drums, and voices to convey the feelings of union drivers through music. This multimedia exploration te…
Music, Seduction, and New Beginnings: The Ikorodo Maiden Dance of Nsukka
Why are conversations about seduction, the female body, and choosing partners central at a funeral during the Ikorodo music performance? How does Ikorodo enact the act of seduction? How has the act of seduction and Ikorodo performance practice evolved? How do Ikorodo performances express the indigenous conceptions of seductions? These are the questions this article addresses to reveal-how Ikorodo dance provides a platform for new beginnings and e…
Dancing Africa in Diaspora: Music, Conundrums and Transnational Encounter
This article explores how Logo Ligi's songs and lyrics function in the diasporic space of Boulder, Colorado (USA).It also examines the function of dances in analysing the cross-cultural nature of the relationship between Africans in Colorado and their American hosts.People like music for different reasons; Logo Ligi music resonates with African beats and rhythms which are difficult from the cultural music in Colorado.This difference leads to frac…
Stephanie Linus, director. Dry. 2015. 1 hour, 42 minutes, 16 seconds. English and Hausa. Nigeria and United Kingdom. Next Page Productions. Subscription required on irokotv.com
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Stephanie Linus, director. Dry. 2015. 1 hour, 42 minutes, 16 seconds. English and Hausa. Nigeria and United Kingdom. Next Page Productions. Subscription required on irokotv.com
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dancing Africa in Diaspora: Music, Conundrums and Transnational Encounter
This article explores how Logo Ligi's songs and lyrics function in the diasporic space of Boulder, Colorado (USA).It also examines the function of dances in analysing the cross-cultural nature of the relationship between Africans in Colorado and their American hosts.People like music for different reasons; Logo Ligi music resonates with African beats and rhythms which are difficult from the cultural music in Colorado.This difference leads to frac…
Music, Seduction, and New Beginnings: The Ikorodo Maiden Dance of Nsukka
Why are conversations about seduction, the female body, and choosing partners central at a funeral during the Ikorodo music performance? How does Ikorodo enact the act of seduction? How has the act of seduction and Ikorodo performance practice evolved? How do Ikorodo performances express the indigenous conceptions of seductions? These are the questions this article addresses to reveal-how Ikorodo dance provides a platform for new beginnings and e…
Inverse relationships between cultural sustainability and human rights: The counterintuitive cases of Nigerian Avu Udu dance and white-power music
This article examines ethical complexities of sustaining and safeguarding intangible cultural practices. Could safeguarding efforts violate human rights? In what circumstances could allowing a practice to die out be more ethically defensible than seeking to sustain it? And when, if ever, might it be ethically defensible to attempt to ‘kill’ a cultural practice? Presenting and employing a conceptual matrix to theorise the relationships between cul…
Cool Running: The Story of Ghana's Honk Horn Lorries and Por Por Music
Focusing on por por music, this multimedia project is the result of over a decade of collaboration and research involving the Driver's Union in Ghana, Ghanaian oral historian Nii Yemo Nunu, American ethnomusicologist Steven Feld, and German photographer Hannah Schreckenbach. Por por music is a genre that utilizes squeeze-bulb honk horns, bells, drums, and voices to convey the feelings of union drivers through music. This multimedia exploration te…
Songs and female names in contemporary Nigeria: A Mother’s Prayer or Men’s Muse
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)