SPIRITUAL PUBLICATIONS (Click here)
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It is Time to Seek the Lord (O to akoko lati wa Oluwa)
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Christ Apostolic Church: Woo bi Awon Alagbara re ti n Subu
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That the Power of Christ may Dwell in Me: Towards a Theology of Weakness
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Self-Deliverance Manual
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The Needed Revival for the End-Time
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS BY ‘FEMI ADEDEJI
Essay/Theses by Rev. ‘Femi Adedeji
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1991. ‘Ifa Music in Ijo Orunmila’ (unpublished M.A. Thesis). University of Ibadan. 226pp.
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1998. ‘A Contextual Exegesis of New Testament and Traditional Yoruba Hymns’ (unpublished M.
A. Thesis). Obafemi Awolowo University. Ile-Ife. 238 pp. -
2004. ‘Nigerian Gospel Music: A Study of its Styles’ (unpublished PhD Thesis). Institute of African
Studies. University of Ibadan. Nigeria. 904pp. -
2012. ‘The Theology of Music in the New Testament and Its Implication for the 20th Century
Nigerian Church’. (unpublished B.Th Project). Acadia University, Acadia. 77pp.
Books Edited by Rev. ‘Femi Adedeji
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Selected Topics on Nigerian Music by Augustus O. Vidal. Ile-Ife: OAU Press.
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2012b. Essays on Yoruba Musicology by Augustus O. Vidal. Ile-Ife: OAU Press.
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2017a. Nigerian Indigenous Musical Terminologies (A Multilingual Lexicon). Ile Ife: Association of
Nigerian Musicologists. -
2017b. Musical Horizons in Africa (Essays and Perspectives): A Festschrift in honour of Daniel
Chikpezie Christian Agu. Ile Ife: Association of Nigerian Musicologists (already cited under Book
articles). -
2017c. Songs of Life: Selected Vocal Works of Daniel Chikpezie Christian Agu. Ile Ife: Association
of Nigerian Musicologists.
Book/Journal Articles by Rev. ‘Femi Adedeji
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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 –
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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.
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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.