- Collection:
- Africana Digital Ethnography Project (ADEPt)
- Title:
- Morehouse College Glee Club performs "Iya Mi" (My Mother) by Jude Nwankwo
- Creator:
- Morrow, David
Nwankwo, Jude
Carter-Enyi, Aaron - Date of Original:
- 2017-04-04
- Subject:
- Yoruba language
Choral music
Music--Performance - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- streaming video
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In the Fall of 2016, the Morehouse College Music Department issued a call for early-career Nigerian composers to submit applications for consideration. This project builds on the Morehouse College Glee Club’s reputation of performing African choral music under the direction of Wendell Whalum, Uzee Brown, Jr., and David Morrow In December 2016, Jude Nwankwo was selected as the inaugural recipient of the award. Mr. Nwankwo is a Lecturer of Music at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Mr. Nwankwo was commissioned to write a three- to five-minute piece for TTBB (male-voice) choir on secular themes in one of Nigeria’s roughly 500 languages. He selected the Yoruba language and the title of the new work is “Iya Mi” (My Mother). The premiere of “Iya Mi” took place Friday, March 31 at 7 P.M. in Morehouse College’s Ray Charles Performing Arts Center. This occurred during the 2017 meeting of the National Association for the Study and Performance of African-American Music (NASPAAM), a national conference hosted at Morehouse College. Keywords: African American Studies; African History; African Languages and Societies; Critical and Cultural Studies; Dance; Digital Humanities; Ethnic Studies; Ethnomusicology; Folklore; Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication; Linguistic Anthropology; Migration Studies; Performance Studies; Poetry; Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies; Race and Ethnicity; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Sociology of Culture.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/adept.yor:0015.003
- 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: Yoruba Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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