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This study examines the Oba of Benin Royal Ugie ivie festival, which is an annual religious and cultural event celebrated by the Benin speaking people of Edo State, Nigeria. As a communal and spiritual activity, the Oba and people of Benin kingdom mark the Ugie festivals with Musical and dance performances. Within this context, the study adopts the historical and participant approaches as its method of contending that some events during the Oba of Benin Royal Ugie festival ceremonies are colorful theatrical performances. The organizational structure of the Oba of Benin Palace as it relates to the observance of Ugie festival ceremonies is also discussed in this research. This study also examines the role Ewini music plays in the various Oba of Benin Royal Ugie festival ceremonies, thereby looking at its origin, socio-cultural context, formation procedure, instrumentation, and organizational set-up. This work takes an overall look at Ugie (festivals) ceremonies in the Royal Court of Benin, and shows in chronological order the various constituents of the Ugie ceremonies. The project is broken into four distinct chapters for segmental appraisal of the subject matter.

Chapter one takes a general view at the topic term “Ugie” in an introductory note, as well as the statement of problems, objectives, scope, significance, limitation of the study and the organization of the study employed for the study. Chapter two x-rays the Benin palace as it relates to these Ugie ivie festivals in terms of structure, composition, societal groupings and their functions. And it also looks at the political organization and the administration of the Benin kingdom.

Chapter three examines and analyses the festival in terms of content, music, song, dance, audience, costumes, extent of participation and theatrical contents, such as the Ugie ivie rituals and plotting. Chapter four is conclusion.

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