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100 1 Oruh, Chioma
245 10 Music and liberation during the Biafran War (1967--1970)
|h[electronic resource]
300 118 p
500 Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05,
page: 2597
500 Adviser: Mbye Cham
502 Thesis (M.A.)--Howard University, 2009
520 For many indigenous African cultures, music serves more as
a verb than a noun. Music has been used in various forms
for spiritual ceremonies, political information
dissemination and entertainment for many social
celebrations. It is with awareness of the potency of music
that this research proposes to document and analyze the
war songs of Biafra. As one of the first liberation
struggles in the period following independence from
European colonial rule, the tensions caused by Biafra's
secession from the Federal Republic of Nigeria (a land
mass previously designated as a British colonial
protectorate) challenged accepted ideas of nation-states
in Africa. This thesis addresses the following questions:
What were the specific songs used during the Biafran War
era? What role did music (particularly song) play in the
Biafran War? Specific to inspiration and sustaining morale,
how did these creative works influence Biafran soldiers
and civilians? How did these songs reflect culture?
590 School code: 0088
650 4 History, Black
650 4 History, African
650 4 Music
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690 0331
690 0413
710 2 Howard University.|bAfrican Studies
773 0 |tMasters Abstracts International|g47-05
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