- Collection:
- Africana Digital Ethnography Project (ADEPt)
- Title:
- Ribbon-Cutting by Orba Ikorodo Ensemble
- Creator:
- Nwankwo, Jude
Carter-Enyi, Aaron
Attama, Augustine - Date of Original:
- 2019-01-05
- Subject:
- Igbo (African people)--Social life and customs
Igbo (African people)--Rites and ceremonies
Marriage customs and rites
Music - Location:
- Nigeria, Enugu State, 6.5, 7.5
- Medium:
- streaming video
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Ikorodo is a traditional music ensemble accompanied by a maiden dance, popular among the Nsukka people of Enugu State, Nigeria. It is performed with a set of four horns (Isi opi, Akpoke, Akpanwunye, Mgbe) employing hocket technique and four percussive instruments (okpokolo – wooden slit drum, osha – rattles, alo – metal gong, igba – membrane drum). The instrumentalists are old men while the dancers are young maidens. This performance was recorded at an Igbo traditional wedding ceremony in Obukpa, Nsukka, on January 5, 2019. This recording shows the bride and her family accepting the groom and his family’s offer of marriage and bride-price and welcoming the groom and his kinsmen into the venue for the marriage. The family of the groom is from western Nigeria and is Yoruba. The family of the bride is from eastern Nigeria and is Igbo. At the end, the Ikorodo group dances briefly to finish this section of the ceremony. Ikorodo Orba is located in Orba, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. The Chairman of the group is Augustine Attama (+2348064645093).
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/adept.unn:0024
- 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: University of Nigeria Nsukka Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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