- Collection:
- Africana Digital Ethnography Project (ADEPt)
- Title:
- Igbu Oja (Playing the Flute): "Igwe O, Igwe"
- Creator:
- Ogbu, Bartholomew
Chukwudozie, Charles
Ewelum, Chinyelum
Carter-Enyi, Aaron
Omodoro, Ebruphiyor
Amadi, Nnaemeka C. - Date of Original:
- 2020-11-02
- Subject:
- Igbo (African people)
Arts
Igbo
Musical Instrument - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- web pages (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- In this video, the Oja flute player and Lolo (Queen) praise sing for the Igwe (King). The Lolo (Queen) is the wife of the Igwe (chief) of a community in Igboland. Oja is a wooden flute, indigenous to the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria. Its usage is vast, but in most cases it is used in dramatic performance to create suspense. It can also be used in solo performance or as an accompanying instrument for a great person, such as the king portrayed in this video by Charles Chukwudozie. The Oja may be played for the Igwe for the purpose of entertainment or relaxation. Or, may take on a more important role during life-cycle celebrations such as naming ceremonies or taking of a new wife. The use of the Oja goes as far as the need calls, to the extent of using it to sing a dirge for the dead. The Ọja may be seen as the soul of Igbo cultural music. In Igbo myths, it is believed to possess some form of spiritual power capable of even raising the dead. Simply put, Oja is a musical instrument of repute for the Igbo people. It is sometimes described as the Oil with which Igbo music is eaten. The sound energizes the weak and calls up the very aged to jump up in strength as they dance to its calls. Performers: Bartholomew Ogbu (ike anyi ji eje mba), Charles Chukwudozie, Chinyelum Ewelum. Videographers: Aaron Carter-Enyi, Ebruphiyor Omodoro Translators: Charles Chukwudozie, Nnaemeka .C. Amadi
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/adept.ibo:0013
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection are protected by copyright. For more information or to request a use not granted under the Copyright Educational Use Statement from rightsstatements.org, please contact Aaron Carter-Enyi (aaron.carterenyi@morehouse.edu) with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- Africana Digital Ethnography Project: Igbo Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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