The Rhetoric of Self-Adulation in Contemporary Nigerian Popular Music: A Psychological Perspective

Imbizo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olushola Are
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Defence Mechanism ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender

The tendency among many Nigerian popular music artists to engage in self-adulation has been identified in some studies, but has not received enough pointed and focused attention. This article therefore takes a close look at this phenomenon. Twelve songs by eight different artists deemed to be sufficiently representative of contemporary popular music in Nigeria were purposively selected for the study. They were analysed thematically on the basis of some constructs in social psychology. Based on the analyses, this article concludes that self-adulation in contemporary Nigerian popular music serves the artists as a defence mechanism in the face of palpable threats to their self-esteem, which are generated by specific social realities. The attendant lyrics which often involve the flaunting of wealth and women have the capacity to encourage crass materialism and the denigration of women among the young impressionable fans of the musical genre. The article recommends some reorientation that would encourage artists and their producers to take the overall social implications of their lyrics into cognisance and make necessary adjustments to avoid misguiding youth into vain materialism and gender bias.

scholarly journals Kroncong Orchestration of Millennial Generation

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Victor Ganap
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Cultural Domain ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Rhythm Pattern

Kroncong is the urban popular music of Indonesia, which some scholars suggest was brought by Portuguese in the early sixteenth century.  Kroncong becomes popular across the archipelago as accompaniment in its musical genre, theatre and film. Although popular music has long been an integral part of Indonesian cultural domain, genres such as kroncong have been overlooked by music scholars.  This article aims to introduce kroncong orchestration that could be performed in an updated style for incorporating repertoire from any other genres into idiomatic kroncong, that will be adopted by the millennial generation. Therefore, the reinvention of kroncong will not only be a significant contribution to scholarship on Indonesian popular music, but it will also contribute to a wider understanding of the complexities of indigenous ethnicity, political power, social class, and gender. The orchestration that will retain its rhythm pattern and vocal ornamentation, while reinforcing the strings and winds as melodic carriers.

scholarly journals Correlations of self-esteem with academic competencies and gender variations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-12
Author(s):  
Mustapha Akoul ◽  
Saïd Lotfi ◽  
Mohamed Radid
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Sense Of Competence ◽  
The Face ◽  
Initial Hypothesis ◽  
Academic Competencies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Oral Skills ◽  
Academic Results

The goal of this study is to assess, with validated instruments, the corollary links between students’ academic results and the nature of their perceptions of their skills and self-esteem. For accomplishing this, we tested it 255 student volunteers with an average age of 21 years (91 female students and 164 male students). We opted for two types of surveys: a questionnaire developed by Duclos, which measures self-esteem in five domains, and a questionnaire on the perception of competence on three domains of training (oral skills, written skills and physical practice skills). Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) was used to assess the intensity of the relationship between parameters. The data were processed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 26). The significance level was set at p < 0.05. These three variables combined in the synthesis of the results confirm the initial hypothesis that there is a correlation but only between a few domains of self-esteem, sense of competence and academic results obtained. Indeed, students in this branch of education have a negative perception of their ‘academic’ and ‘physical’ self-esteem when their academic performance is modest or low. On the other hand, the domains of family, social and overall self-esteem are not influenced, despite modest academic achievement. The result is that even though students display a low sense of competence in the face of modest results during training, their self-esteem in the ‘family and social’ domains stays stable with good scores.   Keywords: Academic results, corollary links, gender, perception of competence, self-esteem.        

scholarly journals FACE POLITENESS OF MAKASSAR PEOPLE

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Nur Qalbis
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Loss Of Face ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Face Search ◽  
Negative Face

This research explains faculty aspects among Makassar tribe community in South Sulawesi. The objective is to provide an understanding of Makassar facilitation aspect in Gowa district. This study describes the form of expressions related to the concept of face (self-esteem, image) that is loss of face, face thickness, and face search of speech acts in the community. Face has two aspects: positive face and negative face. This research uses qualitative approach, methods with observation, interview, and recording techniques. The results of this study indicate that there is a shift in the concept of Makassar society face that this is influenced by the level of social, education, and gender. Social status here is no longer influential in preserving the concept of the face. This is because there is a shift between the social statue bangsawa no longer care about it, let alone the young. Furthermore, the level of education, that the higher the education then they will maintain the concept of face in interacting with each other in the community. Finally, sex also determines facial or facial salvation in communicating, compared with male women are very maintaining the concept of advance in communicating and interacting in the community.    

Implicit individual differences: relationships between implicit self‐esteem, gender identity, and gender attitudes

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene V. Aidman ◽  
Steve M. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Implicit Measures ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Method Effects ◽  
And Gender

The study examined whether the magnitude of same‐sex‐favouring implicit gender bias depends on individual differences in self‐esteem and gender identity as theorized by Greenwald et al. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was used to measure implicit self‐esteem, gender identity, and gender attitudes. Explicit self‐esteem and gender identity were measured with questionnaires. The IAT revealed a strong automatic preference for female words in 34 female undergraduates but, surprisingly, no significant gender bias in 32 males. Individual levels of this gender bias were predicted in both sexes by IAT‐derived implicit measures of self‐esteem and gender identity, as well as by their interaction. Neither declared gender identity nor explicit self‐esteem added to the prediction. The results are discussed in terms of balanced identity design and the potential influence of method effects on the findings. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Correlations of self-esteem with academic competencies and gender variations

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Mustapha Akoul
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Sense Of Competence ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Academic Competencies ◽  
Student Volunteers ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Variations ◽  
Academic Results

In psychology, self-esteem is a concept that is largely used and analysed in the scientific literature. The goal of this study is to assess, with validated instruments, the corollary links between students’ academic results and the nature of perceptions of their skills and self-esteem. A total of 255 student volunteers with an average age of 21 years (91 female students and 164 male students) were included. We opted for two types of surveys: a questionnaire (SEQ) developed by Duclos, which measures self-esteem in five domains, and a questionnaire on the perception of competence on three domains of training. According to the results, even though students displayed a low sense of competence in the face of modest results during training, their self-esteem in the ‘family and social’ domains stayed stable with good scores. The study concludes that every person achieves high self-esteem when they achieve successes that are equal to or greater than their ambitions.   Keywords: Academic results, corollary links, gender, perception of competence, self-esteem.

scholarly journals Discrimination of faces of the same and other race and gender modulated by familiarity

Psihologija ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Barzut ◽  
Suncica Zdravkovic
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Race Bias ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Face ◽  
Classical Effect ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Time

This study aimed to replicate, for the first time on Serbian population, the own-race bias (ORB), a classical effect from the face perception domain. The ORB was additionally contrasted with familiarity and the own-gender bias (OGB). Recognition accuracy for own race faces was higher in comparison both to African (Z=3.29, p<0.01) and Asian faces (Z= 2.59, p<0.01). The introduction of famous faces led to a significant drop in the ORB. However, in all of the conditions a ?seen before? effect was measured, suggesting better recognition for own race faces, independent of familiarity. The OGB was obtained for own-race faces (?2(28, 7) = 119, 34 p <0, 05), while there were no differences in recognition accuracy between the own and the other-race faces of the other gender. These results imply that the ORB could be explained, at least partially, by the OGB. However, these results were obtained on an exclusively female sample.

The Self-Description Questionnaire-1: A Lithuanian Application

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Watkins ◽  
Anne McCreary Juhasz ◽  
Aldona Walker ◽  
Nijole Janvlaitiene
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Nigerian Children ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
And Gender

Analysis of the responses of 139 male and 83 female Lithuanian 12-14 year-olds to a translation of the Self-Description Questionnaire-1 (SDQ-1; Marsh, 1988 ) supported the internal consistency and factor structure of this instrument. Some evidence of a “positivity” response bias was found, however. Comparison of the Lithuanian responses to those of like-aged Australian, Chinese, Filipino, Nepalese, and Nigerian children indicated the Lithuanians tended to report rather lower self-esteem. The Lithuanian males also tended to report lower self-esteem than their female peers. Interpretation of the results are considered in terms of reactions to the recent upheavals in Eastern Europe, stable cultural dimensions, and possible cultural and gender biases in the items of the SDQ-1.

Conventions and temporal differences in painted faces: A study of posture and color distribution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
pp. 267-1-267-8
Author(s):  
Mitchell J.P. van Zuijlen ◽  
Sylvia C. Pont ◽  
Maarten W.A. Wijntjes
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
Color Distribution ◽  
Scientific Domain ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

The human face is a popular motif in art and depictions of faces can be found throughout history in nearly every culture. Artists have mastered the depiction of faces after employing careful experimentation using the relatively limited means of paints and oils. Many of the results of these experimentations are now available to the scientific domain due to the digitization of large art collections. In this paper we study the depiction of the face throughout history. We used an automated facial detection network to detect a set of 11,659 faces in 15,534 predominately western artworks, from 6 international, digitized art galleries. We analyzed the pose and color of these faces and related those to changes over time and gender differences. We find a number of previously known conventions, such as the convention of depicting the left cheek for females and vice versa for males, as well as unknown conventions, such as the convention of females to be depicted looking slightly down. Our set of faces will be released to the scientific community for further study.

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