Festchrift in honour of the Music Maestra Professor Young-Sook Onyiuke, 2022. Online version at http://ojadilipublishing.com.ng/onyiuke/ All Rights Reserved. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND CREATIVITY: THE NEED FOR DOCUMENTATION OF PRODUCTIONS Samuel Jackson Udo & Eunice U. Ibekwe Abstract This study is a discussion on the need for the cultivation of the habit of literature documentation after productions to encourage innovation in departments of Music and Theatre Arts. The aim is to increase the scanty production works of literature that we have especially in Ethnomusicological creative works. The theoretical framework is hinged on Creativitytheory, which explains that creativity is motivational, it helps to bring out innovative ideas for successful planning of productions and it has the potential to generate income and more artistic concepts for future productions. It employed a descriptive research design to analyse 2019 acculturated Christmas Cantata production, produced by the Department of Theatre Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Africa, Toru-Orua. The outcomes of the study show that the documentation of productions encourages innovation, preservation and promotion of indigenous theatrical arts. The study recommends that more creative works should be discovered, documented and published to promote creative works, especially from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Keywords: Ethnomusicology, performance, production Christmas Cantata, creativity, documentation. Introduction In the spirit of giving honour to whom honour is due, in honour of Professor Young- SookOnyiuke, the study is a creative and artistic discussion on the need for the documentation of departmental, practical performances either test, examination or productions. For categorisations, we are under the sub-theme of Ethnomusicology and Creativity. The problem that this study wants to solve is that, even though the whole world is so much flooded with documented knowledge, there are still so many creative works that are yet to be processed into print, especially most of the indigenous or acculturated productions in the University of Africa and Niger Delta as a whole. Documentation on its own is an important means of communication, which people use in making the understanding of their works or productions and intentions known to others. As an Ethnomusicologist, it is such a beautiful thing to observe that creativity and other artistic innovations are deeply rooted in every culture and are functional. Therefore, each time we are staging them we should try to document them for references and other academic purposes. Every culture hasits traditional either musical or otherwise identity which is functional and used in the celebration of different festivals. The festival we are discussing in this study is the Christmas Cantata. In 2019, the University community was not left out in such celebrations and the concept was to acculturate the Cantata. University Campus is a cultural collection of different cultures and in celebrations of such festivals, we need to capture to promote indigenous genres too. This study emanated from the 507