Authors: Olanipekun Emmanuel ABE, Florence T. ADEDOTUN, Adeola T. OLADELE, Tolulope Adetayo FAJOBI
Date: 01/11/2025
Music is a universal artistic expression conceived in the mind and realised through organised performance in rhythm, melody and used for communication, entertainment and recreation. However, the integration of greeting accolades into music performance is a classical style of enriching listeners‟ experiences in a narrative composite. Greeting accolades is a distinctive pattern of Orlando Owoh‟s musical composition that is construed through the blend of traditional African musical elements with modern sensibilities. Accolades integration into music as musical aesthetics has enjoyed little attention in scholarship. The study therefore examines Orlando Owoh‟s musical style and how he integrates the greeting technique into his music. This is to aesthetically foreground the tradition of call and response and audience participation. The pattern of this distinctive style is achieved through storytelling medium. This paper engages Clifford Geertz‟s (2008) cultural approach to classify the technique of integrating greeting accolades to music as a cultural way of celebrating humanity within an existing culture and sourced secondary data through a qualitative approach. Integrating accolades into music helps to establish a cultural connection between the performer and the listener and serve as a giving-back mechanism that helps to fortify social bonds and collective identity amongst people in the society.
Keywords: Aesthetics, greeting accolades, cultural theory, music.
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