Okeke, Basil (2007) The Dialectics of Music and Language in Igbo Liturgical Chants. Journal of the Centro studi guidoniani, 7 (1). pp. 51-89. ISSN 1593-8735
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Abstract
The middle of 19th century marked the advent of the Western missionaries and the formal sewing of the seed of Christian Religion in Igbo land. The initial stage of evangelization activity saw a stiff unwillingness on the part of the two cultures (Igbo culture and Christianity) to either concede or gain from the other. Not until the wake of the liturgical movement and subsequently the Second Vatican Council with its deliberations on the acceptance of the music of other cultures into the Church's liturgy did a ray of light flicker in the dark tunnel of the struggle for cultural co-existence. The two cultures began to experience a certain cultural cross-fertilization similar to what Bruno Nettl described in his two-type distinction of musical acculturation. The celebration of the Holy Mass and singing at Mass, if there were any, were done, for instance, in Latin and , little later, in English. So that the early Igbo liturgical songs, which at the developmental state were not used directly in the liturgy but meant for use in private devotions, became simply nothing other than translations into Igbo language of many Latin and English hymn texts sung to their original melodies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | M Music and Books on Music > M Music |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Uchenna Eneogwe |
| Date Deposited: | 28 May 2025 12:06 |
| Last Modified: | 28 May 2025 12:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/4670 |
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