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.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9789785115659
• 9785115658

OCLC

• 858874973
• SCSB-11960178

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library