Work Information
| Programme | MUSIC |
| Department | MUSIC |
| Faculty | HUMANITIES |
biography (Education/professional experience/professional accomplishments)
| Prof. Daniel C.C. Agu currently serves as a contract professor at the Department of Music, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. He obtained his Ph.D at Queen’s University of Belfast Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in 1984. He specialized in Ethnomusicology and Music Composition. Prof. Agu is a member of six International Professional bodies and one National Professional Body in which he is also a Fellow. Had served as Editor-in-chief of two reputable journals. He published ten mainline books, thirtytwo journal articles and seven book chapters. Prof. Agu has served as commissioned composer for some corporations, institutions and governments, some of which are the Old Anambra State Government, British Broadcasting Corporation (B.B.C) London, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Paul University, Awka, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, and eight Anglican Dioceses in Nigeria. Produced ten compact discs and one DVD, all containing 60 tracks of original choral compositions. Has also composed 23 film and dramatic music. Prof. Agu served as Head of Department at Unizik, U.N.U and University of Ibadan respectively, for a total of seven years. He also served as Dean, Faculty of Arts, and Director, Centre of Excellence for Arts and Humanities, at Unizik. Prof. Agu supervised and graduated 31, Masters Degree and 25 Ph.D students. Served and still serve as External Examiner for Graduate and Post Graduate Programmes in 8 Nigerian Universities and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. |
Academic Qualifications
| S/N | Institutions attended | degree(s) awarded | year |
| 1 | University of nigeria, nsukka | b.a. (hons) mus. | 1977 |
| 2 | queen’s university, belfast, northern ireland, u.k. | ph.d | 1984 |
| 3 |
research interests
| S/N | |
| 1 | Prof. Agu has research interests in Music of Africa, |
| 2 | Composition techniques in African Choral Music and |
| 3 | Film and Dramatization music. |
| 4 | STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL MUSIC. |
| 5 | |
| 6 |
PG project students (name of student and a summary of completed or on-going research)
| S/N | ||
| 1 | CHUKWU, SAM K.L. | IGBO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: A TAXONOMICAL AND CLASSIFICATION STUDY OF THE TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF IMO STATE, NIGERIA. |
| 2 | NWAMARA, A.I | CONTEMPORARY ART MUSIC FOR CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN IGBO LITURGY: ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS IN AFRICAN IDIOM WITH BIBLICAL TEXTS. |
| 3 | UMEZINWA, E. (REV. FR.) | IDENTITY, FREEDOM AND LOGIC IN IGBO MUSIC GENRES: THE RESONANCE OF THE METAPHYSICAL ESSENCE UNDEFENDED. |
| 4 | UDO, ISAAC | ANNANG DANCES: A CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITIONAL APPROACH DERIVED FROM THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF THE ANNANG COMMUNITY, AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA. |
| 5 | FORCHU, IJEOMA (MRS.) | IMPLICATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSICAL PERFERANCES AND BEHAVIOURAL PATTERNS OF NIGERIAN ADOLESCENTS TOWARDS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF ENUGU TOWN |
| 6 | JOHNSON-EGEMBA HELEN .A. | THE ROLES OF FOLK SONGS AMONG THE MWAGHARUL AND THE TAROK SPEAKING TRIBES OF PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA. |
Membership of professional bodies
| s/n | |
| 1 | FELLOW AND PAST NATIONAL PRESIDENT, ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN MUSICOLOGISTS (NNIM) |
| 2 | MEMBER, PAN AFRICAN SOCIETY FOR MUSICAL ARTS EDUCATION (PASME) |
| 3 | MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AFRICA ARTS (IAAC) |
| 4 | MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC (ICTM) U.K. |
| 5 | MEMBER, SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (SEM) USA |
| 6 | MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MUSIC EDUCATION (ISME) |
Selected publications (MAXIMUM OF 10, WITH LINKS WHERE AVAILABLE)
| s/n | |
| 1 | THE VOCAL MUSIC COMPOSER IN A NIGERIAN TRADITIONAL SOCIETY AND HIS COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES. JOURNAL OF PACIFIC REVIEW OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELEs USA. (UCLA) VOL.1, 13-28. (1984). |
| 2 | CULTURAL INFLUENCE ON IGBO CONTEMPORARY CHORAL MUSIC. INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC BULLENTIN. UNITED KINGDOM ChaPter NO. 5, 4-13 (1984). |
| 3 | VOCAL MUSIC IN WEST AFRICA: ITS CREATION AND ACCEPTANCE AS AN ART FORM AMONG THE IGBO OF NIGERIA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MUSIC EDUCATION, U.K. (IJME) 19, 20-30 (1992). |
| 4 | YOUTH SONGS: A TYPE OF IGBO CHORAL MUSIC IN IGBO CHRISTIAN WORSHIP. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF AFRICAN MUSIC (I.S.E.R.) RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMS TOWN 6140, SOUTH AFRICA. 7(2) 13-22 (1992). |
| 5 | THE SITUATION WITH REGARDS TO MUSICAL EDUCATION ACCESS IN NIGERIA: HIP: WWW.MENCORG/CONNECT/CONF/IMEPS/SYMPOS IUM. (2004) |
| 6 | FOUNDATIONS OF PRAGMATICS: THE PRIMACY OF LANGUAGE IN AFRICAN MUSIC THEORY, PRACTICE AND EDUCATION. JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA MUSICOLOGISTS (JANIM) 4, 10-18 (2010). |
| 7 | PERPETUATING NIGERIAN CULTURES IN MUSICAL ARTS EDUCATION WITHIN THE THRESHOLD OF CURRENT GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. JOURNAL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES (2012) 3(2)1-15. HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.4314/UJAH. 13:2:1. |
| 8 | THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY ON IDIGENOUS AND POP MUSIC: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE. JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN MUSICOLOGISTS (JANIM) 5,16-22. (2011). |
| 9 | CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITIONAL PROCEDURES IN NIGERIAN MUSIC PRACTICES: TYPES AND PRESENTATIONAL STYLES. THE NIGERIAN MUSIC REVIEW 14, 19-35. (2016). |
| 10 | MUSICAL PLURALITY: AN INEVITABLITY IN THE NIGERIAN MUSIC SCENE. AWKA JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MUSIC AND THE ARTS (AJRMA) (2019). https://www.nigerianjournalsonline.com/ index.php/ajrma?simplequery=&searchfield=query |
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