Examining the Authenticity of Ethiopian Indigenous Music: A Case Study of Sileshi Demise's (Gash Abera Molla) Yamral Hagere Music Project
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2026
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Addis Abeba University
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In the Case of Diverse Country Like Ethiopia, It is Difficult to Establish a Self Singular Definition as a Homogenous Culture. Music can be Considered a Solution Between a Single Self-Definition of a Culture and More Culture as Unified One. This Thesis Mainly Focused on Extracting the Authenticity of Indigenous Ethiopian Music Through the Lens of the Project of Sileshi Demise (Gash Abera Molla) 'Yamral Hagere' Music Project. Aim to Analyze how Ethiopians Identify Musically in Common. This Thesis Examines the Musical Characteristics, Elements and Structures Through a Detailed Musical Investigation of Thirteen Tracks from the Album, Evaluating how they are Aesthetically Inclusive Through Authentic Lyrical Richness and Melodic Expressions. Data were Collected from Audio Recordings, Musical Discographies and Documents, Books, also an Articles to Evaluate the Authenticity of Ethiopian Indigenous Music.
The Findings of This Thesis Shows the ‘Yamral Hagere’ Project Serves as a Counter-Archive that Preserving Material Acoustic Purism Such as Traditional String Physics Synthesizing Among the Northern Monophonic Modes with Southern Vocal Polyphony to Resist Modern Commercial Flattening. Based on These Findings, this Thesis Recommends Restructuring Higher Education Music Curricula Beyond Simple Pentatonic Reductions and Updating National Cultural Policies to Grant Full Project Autonomy to Traditional Master Practitioners.
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Cultural Authenticity