AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED ROYAL COURT SONGS OF ZAZZAU EMIRATE

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dc.contributor.authorABDULLAHI, Rabi
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-09T10:44:22Z
dc.date.available2019-10-09T10:44:22Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.descriptionA DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTRGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE OF ARTS (M.A) DEGREE IN LITERATURE. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES, FACULTY OF ARTS, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractThis research explores the court praise songs of Zazzau Emirate. This particular research focuses its attention on who are these singers, what are their songs about and what constitute the themes and the literary styles employed in their royal court songs.The study features the songs of court singers in Zazzau Emirate such as Sarkin Sankiran Zazzau, Wazirin Zagi and Barayan Sarki. It also includes Rabi Bazamfara who is the only female court singer in Zazzau Emirate that chants epithets within the inner compound for the Emir and his wives. These royal praise singers were randomly selected.To foreground the society it discusses, the formation of Hausa States and the myths of the origin of songs in Hausa land and a brief biography of the Emir of Zazzau is given. The research adopts the functionalist approach as its theoretical framework. The aim of using the functionalist approach for this research is to explore the unique nature of Hausa oral art forms particularly the praise poetry, using the field work method and also to explore the different factors of Hausa culture.The researcher also analysed the various literary and stylistic devices found in the selected songs such as the themes of praise, eulogy and satire; also the figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, repetition, have all been analysed. The significance/functions and the role of the court singers are well discussed. The convergence and divergence of the themes of the songs were also looked at. Finally, the state of praise singing has also been discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12119
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectANALYSIS,en_US
dc.subjectSELECTED ROYAL COURT SONGS,en_US
dc.subjectZAZZAU EMIRATEen_US
dc.titleAN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED ROYAL COURT SONGS OF ZAZZAU EMIRATEen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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