SCREENED MUSIC IN A GLOBALISED WORLD: ITS IMPLICATIONS ON POP MUSICAL ARTS IN NIGERIA

Sunday-Kanu Rita Adaobi

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Screened music has become the order of the day in the developed, developing and even underdeveloped countries of the world. This has constituted some level of acculturated musical arts in different nations including Africa. This dispensation of high technological revolution and its invention of internet have left mixed cultural musical arts as the trend of 21st century.  It has consequently, resulted to the borrowing, and adoption of other world musical arts. This have recently dominated the African musical arts and its expression. This study investigated the height and influence of screened music on the Nigerian pop music scene, its application and implication to Nigerian pop musical arts. However, findings proved that this trend has resulted to multi-cultural musical art form that is noticeably in Nigerian pop music scene. The related arts such as; texts, phonetics, dance steps, arrangements, settings, paintings, rhythmic progressions, styles applied, costumes and drama reflect these influences. This development left Nigerian pop stars on the verge of being considered neither Nigerian nor Western in their musical art forms and expressions. Data collection was drawn from historical records, personal observation, oral interviews and review of related literature.

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