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Olusegun Stephen Titus is a senior lecturer in the Department of Music, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He obtained a PhD degree in African Musicology/ Ethnomusicology from University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His work focuses on musical narratives on climate change, space and place, urban spaces, performance studies, ecomusicology, migration, trafficking, internally displaced persons, medical musicology, and peace building. Olusegun has held fellowships at IFRA-Nigeria, the A. G. Leventis Program, and has been a visiting scholar at SOAS, the University of London and Oxford University. In 2020, he furthermore held a fellowship of the American Council of Learned Society under the African Humanities Program of the Carnegie Corporation in New York.
RCC Research Project: Musical Representations of Oil Exploration and Honeybees (Dis)placement and Endangerment in the Niger Delta of Nigeria
Selected Publications:
- "Sounding the Environmental Benefits of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria." In Climate Psychology in a Pandemic: Environmental Health in Lockdown, edited by Sam Mickey and Douglas. Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)
- "Ìrègún Music and Sounding Spaces among Yagba-Yoruba People of Nigeria." Journal of Space and Culture (2021): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331220985451.
- "Ecomusicology, Indigenous Knowledge And Environmental Degradation In Ibadan, Nigeria." African Music: Journal of The International Library of African Music Rhodes University, South Africa, vol 11, no 1 (2019): 72-90.
- "Birdsong and its Socio-cultural and Environmental Implications among the Yoruba people of Nigeria." Ecomusicology Review, vol. 7 (2019): 1-21
- "From Social Media Space to Sound Space: Protest Songs During Occupy Nigeria Fuel Subsidy Removal." MUZIKI: Journal of Music Research in Africa, vol.14., no.2 (2017): 109-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2016.1249163.
- with E. O. Titus. "Jimi Solanke and Ebenezer Obey’s Music on Environmental Degradation and Flood Disaster in Ibadan, Nigeria." in Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts and Sciences.Vol. 7, No. 2 (2017):111-130.