THE USE OF PERSONIFICATION IN SIR LUCKY OGHARISI’S MUSICAL SYNTAX

Abstract

Urhobo music maestros of various Urhobo traditional music genres employ syntax in delivery messages to intended recipients. The paper explored Sir Lucky Ogharisi’s writing style by analyzing the musical syntax of Sir Lucky Ogharisi. Survey methodology was employed; the full album of Sir Lucky Ogharisi was used as the study case. Other secondary sources of information relating to the study were also cited. The study revealed that the use of personification as a figurative statement in prose writing and music texts writing was copiously expressed in the song-texts of Sir Lucky Ogharisi. Apart from the use of personification, the song-texts also addressed issues of inflation and economic melt-down affecting the Nigerian scene in 2017. The study suggests that Nigerian traditional musicians who are mouth-piece of their society should continue in their good work and that such good advices should not be neglected by the existing government in place for their messages if abided with would go a long way to forestalling and propel progress of a nation and therefore development. Furthermore, music scholars should study and document such rich messages for future generation.