Books/Journal Articles by Rev. ‘Femi Adedeji 

• 2004a. ‘African Music Notation and the Computer Technology’. In Locating the Local in the Global: Voices on a Globalised Nigeria, in Sola Akinrinade, Modupe    Kolawole, Ibiyemi Mojola & David Ogungbile (eds). [159 – 166]. Ile-Ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University.
   
• 2006a. ‘Aesthetics and Practices in Indigenous Choral Styles of the Yoruba of Africa’. In Minette Mans (ed). Centering on African Practice in Musical Arts Education. [3 – 16]. Pretoria: African Minds.
   
• 2007a. ‘The Praise “n” Worship Musical Style of the Contemporary Nigerian Avant Garde (Charismatic) Christian Church’. In Akin Odebunmi & Adeyemi Babajide (eds). Styles in Religious Communication in Nigeria. [202 – 217]. Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, pp. 202 – 217.​
   
• 2008a. ‘Musical Revolution in Contemporary Nigerian Christianity: a Charismatic Development or Sacredized Profanity?’ In Tunde Babawale & Olukoya Ogen (eds). Culture and Society in Nigeria. (Vol. 2). [366 – 393]. Lagos: Concept Publications Ltd./CBAAC.    
   
• 2009a. ‘Retrieving Indigenous African Music Legacies for Cross-Cultural    Educational Purposes: Sources, Methods and Packaging’. In Tunde Babawale, Akin Alao, Felix Omidire & Tony Onwumah (eds). Teaching and Propagating African and Diaspora History and Culture. [695 – 712]. Lagos: Concept Publications Ltd./CBAAC. ​ 
   
• 2017d. ‘Yoruba Popular Culture’. In Culture and Customs of the Yoruba. (ed.) Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi. [913-928]. Austin, Texas. Pan African University Press. ​
   
• 2017e. The Vociferation of the Oppressed: Empathic Underpinnings of Contemporary Indigenous Christian Prayer Songs in Nigeria. In ‘Femi Adedeji,  Christian Onyeji & Nnamdi Onuora-Oguno (eds). Musical Horizons in Africa (Essays and Perspectives): A Festschrift in honour of Daniel Chikpezie Christian Agu. [107-127]. Ile Ife: Association of Nigerian Musicologists.​
   
• 2017f. The Transformative Essence as an Underpinning factor in Dan Agu’s Music Career. In ‘Femi Adedeji,  Christian Onyeji & Nnamdi Onuora-Oguno (eds). Musical Horizons in Africa (Essays and Perspectives): A Festschrift in honour of Daniel Chikpezie Christian Agu. [341-349]. Ile Ife: Association of Nigerian Musicologists.​
   
• 2011a. ‘School Music Education in Africa: The Meki Nzewi Method’. In Y.S. Onyiuke, I.O. Idamoyibo and D.C.C. Agu (eds.) Mekism and Knowledge Sharing of the Musical Arts of Africa: A Book of General Reading in Honour of Professor Meki Nzewi.[46 – 53]. Awka: Department of Music, Nnamdi Azikiwe University.​
   
• 2012c. ‘Tunji Vidal as a Composer’, in ‘Femi Shaka and M.A. Omibiyi-Obidike (eds.) Music and Theatre Arts in Africa: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Augustus Olatunji Vidal. [29 – 49]. Lagos: Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations,Lagos State University.​
   
• 2013a. ‘Theories in Christian Sacred Musicology: An African perspective’. In Charles Aluede, Kayode Samuel and ‘Femi Adedeji (eds.) African Musicology: Past Present and Future, a Festschrift for Mosunmola Ayinke Omibiyi-Obidike. [103 – 120]. Ile Ife: Association of Nigerian Musicologists. ​
   
• 2013b. ‘African Musicology: Developments and Challenges in the Contemporary Times’. In Charles Aluede, Kayode Samuel and ‘Femi Adedeji (eds.) African Musicology: Past Present and Future, a Festschrift for Mosunmola Ayinke Omibiyi-Obidike. [85-102]. Ile Ife: Association of Nigerian Musicologists.
   
• 2015a. ‘What is Voice Studies’. Voice Studies: Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience. [203-216]. Abington: Routledge.​
   
• 2017g. ‘D.O. Babajide: the Father of Christ Apostolic Church Music’. In The Life and Ministry of Evangelist David Olulana Babajide. [71-86]. Ilesa: CAC Babajide School of Prophets and Evangelists.​
   
• 1997. ‘The Role of Music in Ifa Divination’. Journal of Nigerian Languages     and Literatures. Germany. No.5. 36 – 42.​
   
• 1998. ‘Change in Societal Values: “Virginity” and its Music among African     Societies as a Case Study’. Journal of Nigerian Languages and Literatures.     Burbank, U.S.A. No. 6. 7 – 11.​
   
• 2000a. ‘Elements of Africanism in Nigerian Indigenous Church Music: Christ     Apostolic Church as a Case Study’. Journal of the Nigerian Anthropological and     Sociological Association. Ile-Ife. 1(1). 74 – 84.​
   
• 2000b. ‘The Musical Legacies in Yoruba Ifa Literary Corpus’. Journal of Arts and Ideas. Ile-Ife. No. 2. 1 – 19.
   
• 2000c. ‘Towards a New Approach to the Study of Religious Music in the Contemporary Africa’. Journal of Nigerian Music Education. Abeokuta. No. 1. 40 – 49.
   
• 2001a. ‘Definitive and Conceptual Issues in Nigerian Gospel Music’.    Nigerian Music Review. Ile-Ife. Vol. 2. 46 – 55.​
   
• 2001b. ‘Revolutionary Trends in Nigerian Contemporary Gospel Music’. Humanities Review Journal. Ile-Ife. 1(2). 46 – 53.​
   
• 2002a. ‘Effect of Acculturation on Traditional African Music: Ifa Music of the Yoruba as a Case Study’. Asia Journal of Theology. India. 16(1). 29 – 35.
   
• 2002b. ‘Composing Music for Nigerian Contemporary Christian Liturgies’. Nigerian Music Review.  Ile-Ife. No. 3. 89 – 93. ​
   
• 2002c. ‘The Pedagogy of Guitar’. HURIA: Journal of the Open University of  Tanzania. 4 (1). 88 – 91. ​
   
• 2002d. ‘Theological Themes in the New Testament and Traditional Yoruba     Hymnic Texts: The Socio-Political Import for the Contemporary Africa and the World’. Journal of Nigerian Music Education. Ilorin. No. 3. 23 – 44.​
   
• 2003a. ‘Contextual Exegesis, an Interpretative Method for Bible Hymnic Texts: A Nigerian Perspective’.  Asia Journal of Theology.  India. 17(1). 17 – 25.
         
• 2003b. ‘Niyi Adedokun’s Use of Satire in Nigerian Gospel Music: A Case study of Church Wa n Memu’. Nigerian Music Review. Ile-Ife. No. 4. 93 – 112.
   
• 2003c. ‘Analysis of Selected New Testament Hymns’. Asia Journal of Theology.  India. 17(2). 301 – 314.​
   
• 2004b. ‘Computerizing and Networking Music Education in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions’. Awka Journal of Research in Music and the Arts. Vol. 2. 1 – 9.​
   
• 2005a. ‘Pitch and Tonality in Contemporary African Music: Nigerian     Gospel     Music as a Case Study’. Research Review. Ghana. 21(2). 1 – 10.​
   
• 2005b. ‘Hymns – Sacred and Secular: Use of Poetry in Religious Literature and in the Religious Education System of Judaeo-Christians and the Traditional Yoruba of Africa’. Religion and Society. India. 50(2). 62 – 78.​
   
• 2007b. ‘Instrumentation as a Stylistic Determinant in Nigerian Gospel Music’. Research Review. Ghana. 23(2). 43 – 59.​
   
• 2007c. ‘Christian Music in Contemporary Africa: A Re-examination of its Essentials’.  KOERS. South Africa. 72(1). 85 – 100.​
   
• 2007d. ‘Form in Nigerian Gospel Music’. Awka Journal of Research in Music and  the Arts. Vol. 4. 61 – 71.​
   
• 2008b. ‘New Trends in Global Music Research: The Implication for Nigerian Art Music’. African Musicology Online. Kenya. 2(1). http://www.africanmusicology.org 8 – 17.​
   
• 2008c. ‘Voice Pedagogy in Nigerian University Music Education’. Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists. (Special Edition). 99 – 117.​
   
• 2008d. ‘The Theology and Practice of Music Therapy in Nigerian Indigenous    Churches: Christ Apostolic Church as a Case Study’. Asia Journal of Theology. India. 22(1). 142 – 154.​
   
• 2008e. ‘Reassessing the Significance of the Performing Arts in Africa: the Nigerian Experience’. LASU Journal of Humanities. Vol. 5. 20 – 34.
   
• 2008f. ‘Compositional Techniques in African Art Music: The Meta-Musical Dimension’. African Musicology Online. Kenya. 2(2). http://www.africanmusicology.org 60 – 80.​
   
• 2009b. ‘Classification of Nigerian Gospel Music Styles’. AFRICA: Revista do Centro de Estudos Africanos. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 24/25/26 (March). 225 – 246.​
   
• 2009c. ‘Vocal Aesthetics in Contemporary African Music: A Case Study of Nigerian Gospel Music’. Awka Journal of Research in Music and the Arts. Vol. 6 (June). 1 – 12.​
   
• 2009d. ‘Nigerian Gospel Music in a Globalized Context’.  JANIM: Journal of  the Association of Nigerian Musicologists. No. 3.  60 – 71.​
   
• 2010a. ’Compositional Techniques and Styles in Nigerian Gospel Music’. Journal of Performing Arts, Ghana. 4(1).  2 – 13.​
   
• 2010b. ‘The Relevance of the Nigerian Gospel Music   Today: A Theo-Musicological Analysis’. Asia Journal of Theology. 24(2). 254 – 284.
   
• 2010c.’Transformative Musicology: Recontextualizing Art Music Composition for Societal Transformation in Nigeria’. Revista Electronica de Musicologia. Vol. XIV. http://www.rem.ufpr.br/_REM/REMv14/09/transformative_musicology.html ​
   
• 2010d. ‘Language in Nigerian Music Scholarship: The Dearth of Intellectualism’. JANIM: Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists. No. 4. 19 – 34.​
   
• 2010e. ‘History of Nigerian Gospel Music Styles’. African Notes: Journal of the Institute of African Studies. 29 (1 & 2). 145 – 152.​
   
• 2010f. ‘Language Dynamics in Contemporary African Religious Music: Nigerian Gospel Music as a Case Study’. JANIM: Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists. No. 4.  95 – 116.​
   
• 2010g. ‘Musical Terminology in the Psalms’. African Journal of Biblical Studies. XXVIII(2). 58 – 77. Also published earlier in 2007 in Bulletin for Old Testament Studies in Africa [BOTSA Electronic Forum], Norway. No. 21. http://www.mhs.no/article_631.shtml​
   
• 2010h. ‘The Traditional Hymnic Texts of the Yoruba of Africa as an Agent of Socio – Political Mobilization’. Journal of Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education. Pretoria. Vol. 4. 75 – 97.
   
• 2011b. ‘Traditional Music and Dance: An Appreciation’. Lagos Notes and Records: Journal of the Faculty of Arts. University of Lagos. Vol. 17. 207 – 218. Also published in 2012 in Babalola, E.T. and Azeez, Tunji (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Language, Literature and Communication Studies: Festschrift in Honour of Siyan Oyeweso. [173 – 180]. Ile Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press.​
   
• 2011c. ‘Redefining Nigerian Gospel Music within the Contexts of Musical Aesthetics, Theological Relativism and Socio-Cultural Dynamism’. OJOT: Ogbomoso Journal of Theology. XVI (2). 181 – 192.​
   
• 2011d. ‘Singing as an Outcry of Socio-Economic Emancipation and Transformation in Africa: A Textual Analysis of Selected Nigerian Gospel Songs’’ Obodom: Journal of Music and Aesthetics. 1 (2). 47 – 57. Also published in 2012 as ‘Singing and Suffering in Africa: A Study of Selected Relevant Texts of Nigerian Gospel Music’. Matatu – Journal for African Culture and Society, Focus on Nigeria Literature and Culture. Edited by Gordon Collier. Vol. VII. 411-425.​
   
• 2011e. ‘National Development through Music Technology: The Transformation of the Musicians’ Minds as an Imperative’. JANIM: Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists, Vol.5. 37 – 54.​
   
• 2012d. ‘”I say No”: The Rebuff of Anti-democratic Forces in Orlando Owoh’s Music’. Nsukka Journal of Musical Arts Research. Vol.1. 67 – 80.​
   
• 2012e. ‘Nigerian Contemporary Church Music Forms: A Preliminary Survey’. JANIM: Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists. Vol.6. 206 – 223.​
   
• 2012f. ‘Yoruba Traditional Musical Elements in Church Worship: Cultural, Musicological and Biblical Considerations’. OJOT: Ogbomoso Journal of Theology. XVII(2). 173-196.
   
• 2012g. ‘Performance Styles and Practices in Nigerian Gospel Musicianship’. Journal of the Performing Arts, Ghana. 4(3). 55 – 64.
   
• 2012h. ‘Gospel Music and Inter-religious Crisis in Contemporary Nigeria: “E se ‘ra yin jeje of A.B.C Ayeni” as a Case Study’, West African Association of Theological Institutions (WAATI) Papers. No. 7. 167 – 177.
   
• 2012i. ‘”Ile ya” by Timi Osukoya: an Anti-Nationalistic Gospel?’ Nigerian Music Review. Nos. 11/12. 107-130.​
   
• 2013c. ‘Music Education and the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme in the 21st Century Nigeria: the Necessity for the Transformative Theory’. Journal of Nigerian Music Education (JONIMED). Nos. 4 & 5.  1-15.​
   
• 2013d. African Music Theory in the Music Education Curricula of Nigerian Universities. Awka Journal of Research in Music and the Arts. Vol. 9. 34-44.​
   
• 2013e. ‘Music as a form of Medicine for the Church: A Theo-Musicological Study and Application of I Samuel 16: 14-23’. OJOT: Ogbomoso Journal of Theology. 18(1). 27-49.​
   
• 2014a. Preparing, Writing and Publishing Quality Academic Papers in Music. Journal of Nigerian Music Education (JONIMED). No. 6. 168-174. ​
   
• 2015b. ‘A Theo-Musicological Analysis of Rev. Fr. T.M. Ilesanmi’s “Ninu Aadorin”. In L.O. Adewole and A. Adesoji (eds.) Faculty of Arts Seminar Series 2014-2015. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife.
   
• 2016a. Repositioning Indigenous African Musical Instruments for fhe Much-Needed Cultural Transformation of Music Education in Nigeria. ​Journal of Nigerian Music Education. No. 8. 1-20.
   
• 2017h. ‘The Indigenous Music of Christ Apostolic Church in Nigeria and the Diasporas: Issues in Christian Transformative Musicality’. African Musicology Online. 7(1). 40-66.​
   
• 2017i. ‘The Amphibology of Musical Arts in Nigerian Contemporary Music Scholarship’. Nigerian Music Review. No.14. 87-98.