Background

Nzewi was born on October 21, 1938 in Nnewi, Anambra, Nigeria; the son of Daniel Chukwumezie Nzewi and Priscilla Mgbanu Nzewi.

Education

Nzewi entered the University of Nigeria in 1961. He received a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Queens University in 1977.

Career

Nzewi began his career as a music producer at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in 1965. A year later he took a position of a senior research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nigeria. Since 2000 Meki has been a professor of African music in the Department of Music at the University of Pretoria. Also since 2004 he has served as a founder and program director of the Centre for Indigenous Instrumental Music Practices of Africa.

Achievements

• Meki Emeka Nzevi has a forty-six-year experience of teaching African indigenous musical arts theory and performance practice, as well as thirty-two years of field and practical studies of the underlying philosophies, principles and creative theory in the indigenous African musical arts - music, dance, drama, plastic arts, aesthetics and presentation - all commonly inter-structured in conception, creativity and performance-practices. He is also an interactive researcher in the modern study and practice of African music in Europe for fifteen years.

Works

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  • Musical Sense and Musical Meaning: An Indigenous African Perception

    (Musical Sense and Musical Meaning is an exposition of the...)

    2008
  • A Contemporary Study of Musical Arts Informed by African Indigenous Knowledge Systems

    (Concert Drum Solos Drummistic Piano Solos v. 5, Bk. 1.)

    2007
  • A Contemporary Study of Musical Arts Informed by African Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Intercultural Concert Ensembles v. 5, Bk. 3

    (Intercultural Concert Ensembles v. 5, Bk. 3.)

    2007
  • African Classical Ensemble Music

    (Uso Music (intermediate) Bk. 2.)

    2009

Membership

Nzewi is a member of the International Society of Music Education.

Connections

Meki Nzewi is married to Philomena Nnennaya Ibeabuchi. They have five children.

Father:

Daniel Chukwumezie

Mother:

Priscilla Mgbanu Nzewi

Spouse:

Philomena Nnennaya Ibeabuchi

child:

Ogochukwu Iruoma Nzewi

child:

Odyke Emeka Nzewi

child:

Ifeoma Onunna Anyinwo Nzewi

child:

Atuegwu Meki Jnr Nzewi

child:

Chimdi Nzewi