An international symposium and concert in honour of Professor Akin Euba was held from January 16-18, 2019. It was jointly sponsored by the Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos and The Musical Society of Nigeria, MUSON. The symposium which witnessed series of paper presentations and panel discussions took place near the University of Lagos while the concert was at the Agip Recital Hall, MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos.
It was all in celebration of Professor Akin Euba's contribution to Africanist music scholarship and growth of African art. He introduced the concept of African Pianism to theorize the ways in which composers could use the Western pianoforte compositionally to reinterpret the structural and performance features of African music. He also coined and popularized the term, creative ethnomusicology, to conceptualise the relationship between ethnographic research and musical composition.
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