TRANSFORMING NIGERIAN HIP-HOP MUSIC AND DANCE FOR EDUCATIONAL, MORAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL RELEVANCE

Abstract

Hip-hop music and dance came into existence in the 1970‟s and believed to have sprung from the South Bronx of New York city, although, with a root traceable back to Africa. This genre of music and dance became popular in Nigeria especially among the youths around the late eighties and early nineties but was associated with so much profanity and vulgarity, thus creating for a disinterest and irrelevance as an area of academic pursuit and a possible avenue for curbing societal and moral decadence as well as boost the economy of the country. Through library research, interviews and observations, this work seeks to expose ways in which hip-hop music and dance can be re-organized, restructured and transformed to fit more into the moral, academic standards and socio-cultural interests of the Nigerian society.