Fireworks for a lighting aesthetician
Subtitle: essays and tributes in honour of Duro Oni @ 60
By: edited by Sunday Enessi Ododo
Contributors: Oni, Duro, honouree
Publisher: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lagos, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 760
ISBN-13: 9789785115659
Subjects: Theaters; Stage-setting and scenery; Stage management; Nigerian Arts; Performing arts; Nigerian literature; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One,; title: On Duro Oni's professionalism and contributions.; title: Duro Oni and multimedia approach to stage production  -- Charles E. Nwadigwe; title: Overcoming the challenges of poor architectural planning in Nigerian performance spaces : the outstanding legacies of Duro Oni  -- John Iwuh; title: Duro Oni and the development of modern theatre practice in Nigeria  -- Molinta Enendu; title: Products and corporate events design and presentation in Nigeria : a study of Duro Oni's legacies  -- Sola Fosudo; title: The contributions of Duro Oni to the development of technical theatre practice in Nigeria  -- Okon Udofot Jacob; title: Arts and imagination : discourse on Duro Oni's conception of the ontology of stage lighting  -- Chiedozie Okoro; title: Design media and technical challenges on the modern Nigerian stage : creative responses form Nigeria designers  -- Joel Avaungwa Fanyam; title: Total theatre and multi-media in the Nigerian CHOGM open ceremony performance  -- Ahmed Yerima; title: Criticism in Nigeria theatre design practice : the examples of Duro Oni -- Nwagbo Nnenyelike.; title: Part Two,; title: Theatre practice and technology.; title: Techni-critical evaluation of the lighting of "Ogun Lakaaye" in the new Performing Arts Theatre, University of Ilorin  -- Sunday Enessi Ododo and Adesina Adegbite; title: Spatial organisation and the technical dilemma in contemporary Nigerian theatre practice : a reassessment  -- Odiri Solomon Ejeke; title: Spaces in places of theatre performance  -- Eunice I. Uwadinma-Idemudia; title: Traditional theatre architecture as a panacea for reviving live performance in Nigeria  -- Emmanuel Ejiofor Ebo; title: African elemental stage and scenography  -- Gloria D. Ekere; title: Modern lighting control technology and contemporary theatre practice : implications for theatre development in Nigeria  -- Chidiebere S. Ekweariri; title: Application and effectiveness of sound in Nigeria home video  -- Abdulmalik Adakole Amali; title: Needs of the makeup industry in Nigeria  -- Emmanuel Dike E. Nwachuku; title: Kinetic scenographic aesthetics of J.P. Clark's The Raft and the challenges for the design team  -- Kenneth Efakponana Eni; title: Costume and make-up in the education theatre : Redeemer's University as a case study  -- Olaitan Lateef Rasheed; title: Music and dance in Nigeria's contemporary drama : lessons from Saint Gbiilekaa's Prized Chickens are Not Tasty  -- Ama-Gowon Doki and Rosemary Asen; title: Directing and designing Brechtian plays for African audiences : a study of Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa -- Oke Olufemi.; title: Part Three,; title: Literature, culture, media and civilization.; title: The nexus of ritual and politics : a tour of Ododo's Hard Choice  -- Benedict Binebai; title: Culture, gender sensitivity and language use in Onwueme's two plays  -- Osita C. Ezenwanebe; title: Playwriting : purpose, context and mechanism  -- Olanrewaju M. Agboola; title: National question and the dramatist : Yerimah's The Limam as paradigm  -- Momoh Fulani Okwegwa; title: The inextricability of literature from society in the quest for a new Nigeria  -- Florence Adedoja Elegba and Moses Afria Adekonye; title: Creativity and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) : an appraisal of the visual arts in Nigeria  -- Uche Nnadozie; title: Navigating polygamy : the case of Abimbola Adunni Adelakun's Under the Brown Rusted Roofs  -- Foluke R. Aliyu-Ibrahim; title: African literary artist as a historian : a study of Achebe's Things Fall Apart and A Man of the People  -- Adamu Ndaguye Santali; title: Voices from the dead : textualizing death in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Toni Morrison's Beloved  -- Joseph L. Lewis; title: Earth in the poetry of Niyi Osundare  -- 'Niyi Kayode Afolayan; title: "Child of the River, Child of the Rock" : orature as dominant aesthetics in the early poetry of Niyi Osundare  -- Tunde Olusunle; title: Theatrical elements of Olokun worship in Benin, Nigeria  -- Osakue Stevenson Omoera and Maria Nosa Obanor; title: Ontology of Enyoju arefact in Ebira women folk performances in central Nigeria  -- Adeiza Peter Bello; title: Egungun festival : the celebration of cultural heritage  -- Gbenga Rotimi; title: Spirituality, aesthetics and cultural feminism of Obitun festival in Ondo, Nigeria  -- Bridget Itunnu Awosika and Shadiat Olapeju Shuaib; title: Documentation, publication and propagation of Nigerian oral literature : the management approach  -- Osedebamen David Oamen; title: Nollywood in the road--Nigeria on display  -- Francoise Ugochukwu; title: Efik folktale, creativity and performance in the film Mutanda : a discourse  -- Uwemedimo Atakpo; title: Media vehicles and Christian evangelism  -- Charles Nwachukwu; title: Depictions of women as co-wives in the Hausa movie Sansani (The Battlefield)  -- Asabe Kabir Usman; title: The film industry in Nigeria : its advent, developments and matters arising  -- John Ndubuisi Bardi; title: Re-telling history through film : the place of the Nigerian film-maker  -- Cornelius E. Onyekaba; title: Colour as a means of expressing emotion and mood in the film Billionaire's Club  -- Hameed Olutoba Lawal; title: Revivication of the art of Fila  -- Akinde E. Toyin, Hilda T. Woods and Akinkunmi O. Odeniyi; title: Ceramic studio practice : foundation knowledge for aspiring ceramists  -- Christ Echeta; title: The place of aesthetics and communicative values in the semiotics of African fabric designs : the example of nsibisi cloth  -- Oyenike O. Eseagwu; title: Female body decorations : a study on uli and henna adornments  -- Kelechi Johnmary Ani and Nkechi Anyaoha; title: Marketing museums, aesthetic education and children : Ilorin and Benin National Museum as a case study  -- Adebowale Biodun Area and Margaret Olugbemisola Areo; title: Cultural/national identity and national museums in Nigeria  -- Abba Isa Tijani; title: The science of music : the triggers of properties of sound  -- Oluwaseyi Kehinde; title: Social vision in contemporary Nigerian popular music : a thematic study of selected songs of Asa  -- Saeedat B. Aliyu; title: Commercializing film scripts in Nigeria : challenges and prospects  -- Joseph Bankola S. Ola-Koyi; title: Cultural ethos in traditional African performances : the Tiv nyamtswam in perspective -- Mbachaga Desen Jonathan and Ukuma Teryila Shadrach.; title: Part Four,; title: Interviews with Duro Oni.; title: Making space for stage lighting : four decades in indigenous theatre consulting in Nigeria : interview with Duro Oni  -- John Iwuh; title: Lighting design and application in the theatre and the television : an interview with Duro Oni  -- Alphonsus Orisaremi; title: The interface between theatre technology and stage performances : an interview with Duro Oni -- Olaide Taofiq Nasir.; title: Part Five,; title: Tributes, reflections and reminiscences.