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Sunday, June 2, 2019 animations
Source: gbcghanaonline.com
2019-06-02
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The Academy of Arts and Sciences of Ghana and other academic organizations have been invited to support the study of popular music, which has more to offer than entertainment.
A popular rap musician known as Manifest said this in Accra. According to him, popular music has several potentials that can be exploited to develop the country.
He spoke at the Ephraim Amu Commemorative Lecture Series on "Reinventing Us: The Role of Popular Music in Self-actualization."
Born Kwame Ametepe Tsikata, Manifest is the youngest person outside academia. She was chosen to be the keynote speaker at the Ephraim Amu Memorial Lecture Series organized by the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Manifest's selection as speaker at this year's conference is a tribute to Dr. Ephraim Amu and Professor J. H. Nketia, both academics who have studied music at the highest level.
The theme of this year's conference came with the rise of popular music as one of the most influential actors in attitudinal training.
For this reason, Manifest thinks that universities should support the study of popular music.
"We can use it (popular music) to shape the psyche of people for development … .Dr. Ephraim Amu has been influenced by popular music, so it is a challenge for the Academy and other intellectuals to also take seriously the study of popular music, c & # 39; is beyond entertainment »
The Ephraim Amu Memorial Lecture was instituted by the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Ghana at the initiative of Professor J. H. Nketia in 1999.
The annual conference series brought together leading academics, most of whom are members of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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