Research Catalog

Title

Fireworks for a lighting aesthetician : essays and tributes in honour of Duro Oni @ 60 / edited by Sunday Enessi Ododo.

Publication

Lagos, Nigeria : Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, [2012]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ododo, Sunday Enessi
• Oni, Duro

Description

xxv, 760 pages : illustrations, color portrait; 24 cm

Subject

• Oni, Duro
• Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery > Nigeria
• Stage management
• Arts, Nigerian
• Performing arts > Nigeria
• Nigerian literature > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part One, On Duro Oni's professionalism and contributions. Duro Oni and multimedia approach to stage production / Charles E. Nwadigwe -- Overcoming the challenges of poor architectural planning in Nigerian performance spaces : the outstanding legacies of Duro Oni / John Iwuh -- Duro Oni and the development of modern theatre practice in Nigeria / Molinta Enendu -- Products and corporate events design and presentation in Nigeria : a study of Duro Oni's legacies / Sola Fosudo -- The contributions of Duro Oni to the development of technical theatre practice in Nigeria / Okon Udofot Jacob -- Arts and imagination : discourse on Duro Oni's conception of the ontology of stage lighting / Chiedozie Okoro -- Design media and technical challenges on the modern Nigerian stage : creative responses form Nigeria designers / Joel Avaungwa Fanyam -- Total theatre and multi-media in the Nigerian CHOGM open ceremony performance / Ahmed Yerima -- Criticism in Nigeria theatre design practice : the examples of Duro Oni / Nwagbo Nnenyelike. --
• Part Two, Theatre practice and technology. Techni-critical evaluation of the lighting of "Ogun Lakaaye" in the new Performing Arts Theatre, University of Ilorin / Sunday Enessi Ododo and Adesina Adegbite -- Spatial organisation and the technical dilemma in contemporary Nigerian theatre practice : a reassessment / Odiri Solomon Ejeke -- Spaces in places of theatre performance / Eunice I. Uwadinma-Idemudia -- Traditional theatre architecture as a panacea for reviving live performance in Nigeria / Emmanuel Ejiofor Ebo -- African elemental stage and scenography / Gloria D. Ekere -- Modern lighting control technology and contemporary theatre practice : implications for theatre development in Nigeria / Chidiebere S. Ekweariri -- Application and effectiveness of sound in Nigeria home video / Abdulmalik Adakole Amali -- Needs of the makeup industry in Nigeria / Emmanuel Dike E. Nwachuku -- Kinetic scenographic aesthetics of J.P. Clark's The Raft and the challenges for the design team / Kenneth Efakponana Eni -- Costume and make-up in the education theatre : Redeemer's University as a case study / Olaitan Lateef Rasheed -- Music and dance in Nigeria's contemporary drama : lessons from Saint Gbiilekaa's Prized Chickens are Not Tasty / Ama-Gowon Doki and Rosemary Asen -- Directing and designing Brechtian plays for African audiences : a study of Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa / Oke Olufemi. --
• Part Three, Literature, culture, media and civilization. The nexus of ritual and politics : a tour of Ododo's Hard Choice / Benedict Binebai -- Culture, gender sensitivity and language use in Onwueme's two plays / Osita C. Ezenwanebe -- Playwriting : purpose, context and mechanism / Olanrewaju M. Agboola -- National question and the dramatist : Yerimah's The Limam as paradigm / Momoh Fulani Okwegwa -- The inextricability of literature from society in the quest for a new Nigeria / Florence Adedoja Elegba and Moses Afria Adekonye -- Creativity and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) : an appraisal of the visual arts in Nigeria / Uche Nnadozie -- Navigating polygamy : the case of Abimbola Adunni Adelakun's Under the Brown Rusted Roofs / Foluke R. Aliyu-Ibrahim -- African literary artist as a historian : a study of Achebe's Things Fall Apart and A Man of the People / Adamu Ndaguye Santali -- Voices from the dead : textualizing death in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Joseph L. Lewis -- Earth in the poetry of Niyi Osundare / 'Niyi Kayode Afolayan -- "Child of the River, Child of the Rock" : orature as dominant aesthetics in the early poetry of Niyi Osundare / Tunde Olusunle -- Theatrical elements of Olokun worship in Benin, Nigeria / Osakue Stevenson Omoera and Maria Nosa Obanor -- Ontology of Enyoju arefact in Ebira women folk performances in central Nigeria / Adeiza Peter Bello -- Egungun festival : the celebration of cultural heritage / Gbenga Rotimi -- Spirituality, aesthetics and cultural feminism of Obitun festival in Ondo, Nigeria / Bridget Itunnu Awosika and Shadiat Olapeju Shuaib -- Documentation, publication and propagation of Nigerian oral literature : the management approach / Osedebamen David Oamen -- Nollywood in the road--Nigeria on display / Francoise Ugochukwu -- Efik folktale, creativity and performance in the film Mutanda : a discourse / Uwemedimo Atakpo -- Media vehicles and Christian evangelism / Charles Nwachukwu -- Depictions of women as co-wives in the Hausa movie Sansani (The Battlefield) / Asabe Kabir Usman -- The film industry in Nigeria : its advent, developments and matters arising / John Ndubuisi Bardi -- Re-telling history through film : the place of the Nigerian film-maker / Cornelius E. Onyekaba -- Colour as a means of expressing emotion and mood in the film Billionaire's Club / Hameed Olutoba Lawal -- Revivication of the art of Fila / Akinde E. Toyin, Hilda T. Woods and Akinkunmi O. Odeniyi -- Ceramic studio practice : foundation knowledge for aspiring ceramists / Christ Echeta -- The place of aesthetics and communicative values in the semiotics of African fabric designs : the example of nsibisi cloth / Oyenike O. Eseagwu -- Female body decorations : a study on uli and henna adornments / Kelechi Johnmary Ani and Nkechi Anyaoha -- Marketing museums, aesthetic education and children : Ilorin and Benin National Museum as a case study / Adebowale Biodun Area and Margaret Olugbemisola Areo -- Cultural/national identity and national museums in Nigeria / Abba Isa Tijani -- The science of music : the triggers of properties of sound / Oluwaseyi Kehinde -- Social vision in contemporary Nigerian popular music : a thematic study of selected songs of Asa / Saeedat B. Aliyu -- Commercializing film scripts in Nigeria : challenges and prospects / Joseph Bankola S. Ola-Koyi -- Cultural ethos in traditional African performances : the Tiv nyamtswam in perspective / Mbachaga Desen Jonathan and Ukuma Teryila Shadrach. --
• Part Four, Interviews with Duro Oni. Making space for stage lighting : four decades in indigenous theatre consulting in Nigeria : interview with Duro Oni / John Iwuh -- Lighting design and application in the theatre and the television : an interview with Duro Oni / Alphonsus Orisaremi -- The interface between theatre technology and stage performances : an interview with Duro Oni / Olaide Taofiq Nasir. --
• Part Five, Tributes, reflections and reminiscences.

Call Number

Sc E 14-1282

ISBN

• 9789785115659
• 9785115658

OCLC

858874973

Title

Fireworks for a lighting aesthetician : essays and tributes in honour of Duro Oni @ 60 / edited by Sunday Enessi Ododo.

Publisher

Lagos, Nigeria : Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, [2012]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ododo, Sunday Enessi, editor.

Oni, Duro, honouree.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-1282