REVIVING CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH INDIGENOUS GAME SONGS IN ENUGU SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF ENUGU STATE

Glory Nnam, Florence Nmadu

Abstract


Music embraces nearly all aspect of African life. It is one of the vital ingredients to various activities in African culture. It can be used in worship, politics, for history, entertainment like childbirth, initiation, marriage and education. The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (1995) defined music as “the art of making pleasing combination of sounds and composition so made, written or printed signs representing these sounds†(p. 67). Music is man‟s creation and has been generally accepted world-wide as a universal phenomenon since its meaning and effects are largely the same. Indigenous game songs are performed orally, so it can easily be forgotten since they are not written down. The world is changing and foreign songs are now preferred to detriment of indigenous songs. Parents at home do not have the time to teach their children the local language and their indigenous songs.

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